Re: Pgbouncer

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Raj <rajeshkumar(dot)dba09(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Pgbouncer
Date: 2026-05-14 21:35:46
Message-ID: 27d9f616f9b94cef2932348b15c0ad80cb4c09c5.camel@cybertec.at
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On Thu, 2026-05-14 at 17:49 +0530, Raj wrote:
> App team using connection pooling and opening 500 sessions which seems to me stay ,
>
> In this case pgbouncer session pooling or transaction pooling which is better?

Transaction pooling.

> Max_connections in db: 1000
>
> Pool_mode=session
> Max connections in pgbouncer: 3000
> Default_pool_size=500
> Reserve_pool_size=100
> Min_pool_size=20

Too big. Set default_pool_size = min_pool_size = 20, and set reserve_pool_size = 0.
If that turns out to be too small, increase slightly.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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