Pgpool Global Development Group is pleased to announce the availability of Pgpool-II 4.5 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.

V4.5 contains new features and enhancements, including:

• Allow to use multiple statements in a query string.

• Allow to set delay_threshold_by_time in milliseconds.

• Avoid session disconnection issue in failover/failback/backend error in some cases.

• Allow to route queries to a specific backend node for a specific user connection.

• Support multiple directories specification for pcp_socket_dir.

• Import PostgreSQL 16's SQL parser.

You can download it from here.

Please take a look at release notes.