Re: Pgbouncer pool_mode and application behavior

Thank you, Scott!

On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 5:33 PM Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)elevated-dev(dot)com> wrote:
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> > On Jun 13, 2022, at 8:04 AM, Kristjan Mustkivi <sonicmonkey(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > Am I correct to guess, that pgbouncer in this case in
> > pool_mode=session does not help at all and in order to improve
> > throughput, server engineers really must implement support for
> > transaction mode that pgbouncer provides?
>
> You are correct that session mode will not solve the problem you described. There are 3 possibilities:
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> - as you mentioned, changed clients to be compatible with pgbouncer transaction pooling
>
> - increase pg max_connections
>
> - increase timeouts, use retries, etc so that the servers are more resilient to being temporarily denied connections

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