With the ongoing crisis of COVID-19, I keep myself updated with the latest situation around the globe. The WHO’s website is one I’ve used frequently—and even there I began to intermittently see the error message “sorry, too many clients already“ in my browser. In seeing this, I realized how common it is to underestimate the connection count while we are busy configuring the application.

The above is a scenario we may all face today in our daily lives where a connection load problem may arise, and there are many things you can infer from the message. This episode aims to help you understand how this can be handled in a planned manner with the help of PgPool. For more information, visit: https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/postgresql-pgpool-connection-pool-database-load, and follow all of our updates here: https://www.enterprisedb.com/postgres-pulse.