Pgpool-II 4.5.0 is now released.

Posted on 2023-12-12 by Pgpool Global Development Group
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Pgpool Global Development Group is pleased to announce the availability of Pgpool-II 4.5.0. This is the first stable release of Pgpool-II 4.5.x.

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

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

For more information, please see the website.

V4.5 contains new features and enhancements, including:

  • Allow to use more kind of multiple statements in a query string.
  • Allow to load balance PREPARE/EXECUTE/DEALLOCATE.
  • Allow to set delay_threshold_by_time in milliseconds.
  • Avoid session disconnection issue in failover/failback/backend error in some cases.
  • Allow to route queries to a specific backend node for a specific user connection.
  • Support multiple directories specification for pcp_socket_dir.
  • Import PostgreSQL 16's SQL parser.

You can download it from here.

Please take a look at release notes.