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Async client for PostgreSQL?

Laszlo Nagy gandalf at shopzeus.com
Sun Sep 2 03:56:28 EDT 2012 
> Hmm, I was suggesting that you could replace the whole DB driver with 
> a webservice implemented with twisted, if you rule out threads then 
> with ampoule doing it with a process pool and consume this webservice 
> with the tornado side asynchronously.
I see. I'm sorry, I misunderstood. So this would be a wrapper around 
PostgreSQL. Very interesting idea. (In this case, I'm not sure how to 
safely manage transactions.)
>
> production level example thread pool based DB API:
> Just to give you some ballpark figures, I'm running a game server with 
> a daily peak of about 1500 parallel permanent connections and 50k 
> games played every day (avg game duration 13min, peak request 
> frequency close to 100req/sec) with a lot of statistics going into a 
> MySQL DB on US$2k worth of hardware. Twisted as basis sitting atop 
> FreeBSD, started the latest version in March, its running since then, 
> no restarts, no reboots, no problems.
Thank you.
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