> On Jun 13, 2022, at 8:04 AM, Kristjan Mustkivi <sonicmonkey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am I correct to guess, that pgbouncer in this case in > pool_mode=session does not help at all and in order to improve > throughput, server engineers really must implement support for > transaction mode that pgbouncer provides? You are correct that session mode will not solve the problem you described. There are 3 possibilities: - as you mentioned, changed clients to be compatible with pgbouncer transaction pooling - increase pg max_connections - increase timeouts, use retries, etc so that the servers are more resilient to being temporarily denied connections