Odyssey 1.5.1 released

We are excited to announce a new release of the Odyssey — advanced multi-threaded connection pooler for PostgreSQL and Apache Cloudberry.

A lot of new small features have been implemented, alongside extended protocol support refactoring - many violations fixed, and overall performance of pipelining improved.

New features:

• simple shared pools support
• pool_pin_on_listen option for transaction pooling
• improvements of balancing
• cpu_affinity support
• build with aws-lc support
• SSLKEYLOGFILE support
• support for queue time metrics: avg_wait_time / total_wait_time
• poll server on attach for transparent failed backends closing
• NOTICE with queue time via pool_notice_after_waiting_ms option
• server_drop_on_cached_plan_error option
• improvements of prometheus metrics exporter

Bug fixes

• recheck pool size after server creation
• better cancel support: wait for PG to close the cancel-connection and fix race
• auth_query fixes
• correct Close support in Extended protocol
• DEALLOCATE ALL support
• correct COPY support in extended protocol

More on pages:

• release page on github
• documentation at pg-odyssey.tech
• community links

We are already preparing the 1.5.2 with even more features and fixes, stay tuned! :)