I have now installed the pgbouncer and it seemed to help a little but it did not bring the connections back down once the connections ended or people stopped using it. although it would fluctuate up and down on occasion but it still reached 100 connections. -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Connection-pooling-tp5776378p5776479.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general