Pgpool-II 4.0.0 and pgpoolAdmin 4.0.0 are now officially released.

Posted on 2018-10-21 by Pgpool Global Development Group
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What is Pgpool-II?

Pgpool-II is a tool to add useful features to PostgreSQL, including:

  • connection pooling
  • load balancing
  • automatic fail over and more.

Major releases

Pgpool Global Development Group is pleased to announce the availability of Pgpool-II 4.0.0 and pgpoolAdmin 4.0.0.

Pgpool-II 4.0.0 has new features:

  • Add SCRAM and Certificate authentication support.
  • Detecting "false" primary server of PostgreSQL.
  • Improvement of load balancing:
  • More load balancing fine control after write queries.
  • Load balancing control for specific queries.
  • Allow to specify load balance weight ratio for load balance parameters.
  • Add last state change timestamp to SHOW POOL NODES.
  • Import PostgreSQL 11 SQL parser.
  • Logging client messages.
  • etc.

Please take a look at release notes.

You can download the source code and RPMs.