PostgreSQL: Pgpool-II 4.4 beta1 is now released

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A new PostgreSQL blog post/announcement has been posted!

Pgpool Global Development Group is pleased to announce the availability of Pgpool-II 4.4 beta1. This is not intended to be used in production but 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.

V4.4 contains new features and enhancements, including:

• Add new dynamic spare process management feature. This feature allows selecting between static and dynamic process management modes.

• Allow to specify replication delay by time in streaming replication mode. For this purpose new parameter delay_threshold_by_time is introduced.

• As PostgreSQL already does, Pgpool-II now supports unix_socket_directories, unix_socket_group and unix_socket_p...

Get the full details here: PostgreSQL: Pgpool-II 4.4 beta1 is now released.