Pgpool-II 4.6 beta1 is now released

Posted on 2025-02-19 by Pgpool Global Development Group
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Pgpool Global Development Group is pleased to announce the availability of Pgpool-II 4.6 beta1. This is not intended to be used in production but it is close to the release version. So users are encouraged to test it out.

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.

V4.6 contains new features and enhancements, including:

  • New PCP command to trigger log rotation.
  • Allow logging_collector related parameters to be changed by reloading.
  • New PCP command to invalidate query cache.
  • Allow to force to create query cache
  • New PGPOOL SET CACHE DELETE command.
  • New configuration parameter log_backend_messages.
  • Import PostgreSQL 17's SQL parser.
  • Add IPv6 support for watchdog hostname and heartbeat_hostname parameter.

You can download it from here.

Please take a look at release notes.