Re: Discard All in pgbouncer

Purpose of bouncer is handle idle connections right? Is there a time period
for the DISCARD ALL to go away? If so, how to configure?

The part I don't understand is if bunch of connections in the name of
Discard all is idle , what difference it make?

On Mon, 9 Oct 2023, 19:42 Samed YILDIRIM, <samed(at)reddoc(dot)net> wrote:

> Hi Rajesh,
>
> DISCARD ALL is the query that is executed by PgBouncer in order to
> sanitise a database session before assigning it to another client. If you
> see this query in pg_stat_activity and status of the session is idle, most
> probably it is ok. Probably what you see is the last executed query for the
> session. And the session is idle and waiting to be assigned to a client. :)
>
> Best regards.
> Samed YILDIRIM
>
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2023, 17:07 Rajesh Kumar, <rajeshkumar(dot)dba09(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I could see queries like DISCARD ALL is idle for more than 5minutes (we
>> are using pgbouncer).
>>
>> Why is it idle for more than 5mns? I read about pgbouncer and could not
>> understand this thing. If resetting a connection using query becomes one
>> idle connection, I don't understand the pooling system here
>>
>> Plz help
>>
>