<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:medium;"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>This question was asked recently (thread 5439) but I don't understand the answer (I cannot reply to this thread because I was not yet subscribed). So I still cannot understand when the max_pool parameter is taken into consideration by pgpool</div><div><br></div><div>Like in the initial question, I experimented with num_init_children=1 and max_pool=2</div><div><br></div><div>If I connect with userA, then obviously it works. Then, in another window, I connect with userB : but it hangs (until I disconnect userA). My understanding of max_pool was that each children could cache 2 connections, one for each database user.</div><div><br></div><div>As it is not the case, I am wondering in which use case the max_pool parameter has an effect ?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards and thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Pierre</div></div></body></html>