© Laurenz Albe 2020 In my daily work, I see many databases with a bad setting for max_connections. There is little advice out there for setting this parameter correctly, even though it is vital for the health of a database. So I decided to write up something. What is max_connections? According to the documentation, max_connections […]

pgbouncer is the most widely used connection pooler for PostgreSQL. This blog will provide a simple cookbook how to configure user authentication with pgbouncer. I wrote this cookbook using Fedora Linux and installed pgbouncer using the PGDG Linux RPM packages available from the download site. But it should work pretty similarly anywhere.   What is […]