3 files changed, 45 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index ea9841b43502..add7e5ba62f4 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ dependencies = [
 ]
 
 [[package]]
+name = "antidote"
+version = "1.0.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+
+[[package]]
 name = "arrayvec"
 version = "0.4.7"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
@@ -245,6 +250,8 @@ dependencies = [
  "chrono 0.4.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "diesel 1.2.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "env_logger 0.5.6 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "log 0.4.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "r2d2 0.8.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -361,6 +368,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "chrono 0.4.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "diesel_derives 1.2.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "pq-sys 0.4.4 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "r2d2 0.8.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -948,6 +956,16 @@ dependencies = [
 ]
 
 [[package]]
+name = "r2d2"
+version = "0.8.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+dependencies = [
+ "antidote 1.0.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "log 0.4.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "scheduled-thread-pool 0.2.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+]
+
+[[package]]
 name = "rand"
 version = "0.3.22"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
@@ -1069,6 +1087,14 @@ dependencies = [
 ]
 
 [[package]]
+name = "scheduled-thread-pool"
+version = "0.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+dependencies = [
+ "antidote 1.0.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+]
+
+[[package]]
 name = "scoped-tls"
 version = "0.1.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
@@ -1626,6 +1652,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "checksum actix-web 0.5.0-dev (git+https://github.com/actix/actix-web.git)" = "<none>"
 "checksum actix_derive 0.2.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "c4b1dc922654b9aca7a8a31eab875fde804fa9fbd67f220f2e457787b23590f2"
 "checksum aho-corasick 0.6.4 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "d6531d44de723825aa81398a6415283229725a00fa30713812ab9323faa82fc4"
+"checksum antidote 1.0.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "34fde25430d87a9388dadbe6e34d7f72a462c8b43ac8d309b42b0a8505d7e2a5"
 "checksum arrayvec 0.4.7 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "a1e964f9e24d588183fcb43503abda40d288c8657dfc27311516ce2f05675aef"
 "checksum atty 0.2.8 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "af80143d6f7608d746df1520709e5d141c96f240b0e62b0aa41bdfb53374d9d4"
 "checksum backtrace 0.2.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "346d7644f0b5f9bc73082d3b2236b69a05fd35cce0cfa3724e184e6a5c9e2a2f"
@@ -1730,6 +1757,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "checksum quote 0.3.15 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "7a6e920b65c65f10b2ae65c831a81a073a89edd28c7cce89475bff467ab4167a"
 "checksum quote 0.4.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "1eca14c727ad12702eb4b6bfb5a232287dcf8385cb8ca83a3eeaf6519c44c408"
 "checksum quote 0.5.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "7b0ff51282f28dc1b53fd154298feaa2e77c5ea0dba68e1fd8b03b72fbe13d2a"
+"checksum r2d2 0.8.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "f9078ca6a8a5568ed142083bb2f7dc9295b69d16f867ddcc9849e51b17d8db46"
 "checksum rand 0.3.22 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "15a732abf9d20f0ad8eeb6f909bf6868722d9a06e1e50802b6a70351f40b4eb1"
 "checksum rand 0.4.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "eba5f8cb59cc50ed56be8880a5c7b496bfd9bd26394e176bc67884094145c2c5"
 "checksum rayon 0.8.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "b614fe08b6665cb9a231d07ac1364b0ef3cb3698f1239ee0c4c3a88a524f54c8"
@@ -1744,6 +1772,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "checksum rustc-demangle 0.1.7 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "11fb43a206a04116ffd7cfcf9bcb941f8eb6cc7ff667272246b0a1c74259a3cb"
 "checksum safemem 0.2.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "e27a8b19b835f7aea908818e871f5cc3a5a186550c30773be987e155e8163d8f"
 "checksum same-file 0.1.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "d931a44fdaa43b8637009e7632a02adc4f2b2e0733c08caa4cf00e8da4a117a7"
+"checksum scheduled-thread-pool 0.2.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "1a2ff3fc5223829be817806c6441279c676e454cc7da608faf03b0ccc09d3889"
 "checksum scoped-tls 0.1.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "8674d439c964889e2476f474a3bf198cc9e199e77499960893bac5de7e9218a4"
 "checksum scopeguard 0.3.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "94258f53601af11e6a49f722422f6e3425c52b06245a5cf9bc09908b174f5e27"
 "checksum semver 0.8.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "bee2bc909ab2d8d60dab26e8cad85b25d795b14603a0dcb627b78b9d30b6454b"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 4800dbd02a3c..b03275ab02a3 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,5 +7,7 @@ authors = ["Vincent Ambo <mail@tazj.in>"]
 actix = "0.5"
 actix-web = { git="https://github.com/actix/actix-web.git" }
 env_logger = "0.5"
-diesel = { version = "1.2", features = ["postgres", "chrono"]}
+diesel = { version = "1.2", features = ["postgres", "chrono", "r2d2"]}
 chrono = "0.4"
+log = "0.4"
+r2d2 = "*"
diff --git a/src/db.rs b/src/db.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..57aa5f9827f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/db.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+//! This module implements the database connection actor.
+
+use actix::prelude::*;
+use diesel::prelude::PgConnection;
+use diesel::r2d2::{Pool, ConnectionManager};
+
+/// The DB actor itself. Several of these will be run in parallel by
+/// `SyncArbiter`.
+pub struct DbExecutor(pub Pool<ConnectionManager<PgConnection>>);
+
+impl Actor for DbExecutor {
+    type Context = SyncContext<Self>;
+}