pgpool Connections Distributions Among Nodes

Hi Gurus,

We have 4-node cluster (1 master and 3 hot standby). We are using pgpool as load balancer. We have an observation where if application requests for 3 connections, pgpool connects to all 4 servers and I see 3 connections on each of them. I was expecting it have a total of 3 connections from either of 4 servers but I can easily see 12 connections in all.

Can somebody shed some light on it.

Please let me know if you need more information.

Regards,
Virendra

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