© Laurenz Albe 2021 PostgreSQL v14 has new connection statistics in pg_stat_database. In this article, I want to explore one application for them: estimating the correct size for a connection pool. New connection statistics in v14 Commit 960869da080 introduced some new statistics to pg_stat_database: session_time: total time spent by sessions in the database active_time: time […]

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 […]