[pgpool-general: 7916] Pgpool-II 4.3.0 released.

[Bo Peng]

Pgpool Global Development Group is pleased to announce the availability of Pgpool-II 4.3.0.

V4.3 contains new features and enhancements, including:

* A new membership mechanism is introduced to Watchdog to
  allow to keep quorum/VIP when some of watchdog nodes are removed.

* Allow to choose the least replication delay standby node
  when selecting the load balance node. 

* Allow to specify the node id to be promoted in pcp_promote_node. 

* Allow to configure to not trigger failover when PostgreSQL 
  is shutdown by admin or killed by pg_terminate_backend. 

* Add new fields to pcp_proc_info, SHOW POOL_PROCESSES and 
  SHOW POOL_POOLS command to display more useful information to admin.

* Allow pcp_node_info to list all backend nodes information.

* Add new fields showing actual PostgreSQL status to 
  SHOW POOL NODES command and friends.

* Add a new parameter which represents the recovery source 
  hostname to recovery_1st_stage_command and recovery_2nd_stage_command. 

* Add support for log time stamp with milliseconds.

* Import PostgreSQL 14's SQL parser.

* Support include directive in pgppol.conf file. 
  You can have separate sub-config file to be included in pgpool.conf.

* pgpool.conf sample files are unified into single sample file for easier configuration.

* All configuration parameters in pgpool.conf sample file are 
  commented out to clarify which parameter is needed to be changed.


You can download it from:
https://www.pgpool.net/mediawiki/index.php/Downloads

Please see the release notes at:
https://www.pgpool.net/docs/43/ja/html/release-4-3-0.html

-- 
Bo Peng <pengbo at sraoss.co.jp>
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
http://www.sraoss.co.jp/