The Pgpool global development team announced the release of PgPool-II 4.2 beta1. This version is currently not recommended for production, but everyone is encouraged to actively test and use it.
Pgpool-II is a tool for PostgreSQL database, its features are as follows:
- connection pool
- Load balancing
- Automatic failover etc.
For more details, please refer to the official website .
The V4.2 version includes the following new features and function extensions:
- Some configuration items of pgpool.conf have been extended to improve the ease of management and configuration.
- Realize logging_collector to achieve the purpose of better log management.
- Implement log_disconnections to collect connection disconnection logs.
- Implement pg_enc and pg_md5 to allow multiple passwords to be registered at once.
- Allow to view the statistics of the health check through the SHOW POOL_HEALTH_CHECK_STATS command, and allow to view the statistics of the problem SQL through the SHOW POOL_BACKEND_STATS command.
- Add a new PCP command pcp_reload_config.
- Added a new cluster mode: snapshot_isolation_mode, which not only ensures that the data is modified in multiple PostgreSQL, but also the read is consistent.
- Support LDAP authorization between the client and Pgpool-II.
- Added ssl_crl_file and ssl_passphrase_command options for SSL configuration.
- Improve the SQL parsing of PostgreSQL 13.
You can get the software from here .