Pgpool-II 4.6 beta1 has been released for testing. This tool enhances PostgreSQL by incorporating features such as connection pooling, load balancing, and automatic failover. The update covers new commands for log rotation, invalidating the query cache, creating the query cache, and incorporating IPv6 support for the watchdog hostname and heartbeat_hostname parameters.
Pgpool-II 4.6 beta1 is now released
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.
