Preface

Table of Contents
What is Pgpool-II?
A Brief History of Pgpool-II
Conventions
Further Information
Restrictions
Bug Reporting Guidelines

This book is the official documentation of Pgpool-II. It has been written by the Pgpool-II developers and other volunteers in parallel to the development of the Pgpool-II software. It describes all the functionality that the current version of Pgpool-II officially supports.

To make the large amount of information about Pgpool-II manageable, this book has been organized in several parts. Each part is targeted at a different class of users, or at users in different stages of their Pgpool-II experience: