[pgpool-general: 303] Re: lots of errors: kind does not match between master

[Tatsuo Ishii]

> Thanks for your reply.  Is there some way that I can reconfigure
> pgpool to "pool" an extra number connections for its clients that are
> not actually available on the backend server, where those extra
> connections would just queue up until the backend had an open slot to
> accept them?  I realize this means that the extra pgpool connections
> would have a potentially longer latency if the backend had no more
> spares, but I'd consider that a significant improvement over the
> current behavior, where pgpool has no actual spare capacity.

That would break clients which use authentication_timeout
functionality of PostgreSQL thus would not be acceptable. Also I don't
see why you just lower num_init_children which will make exactly the
same effect you are proposing.
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