On Wed, Jul 5, 2023, at 9:43 AM, Thom Brown wrote: > I guess my immediate question is, should backups be taken through > PgBouncer? It seems beyond PgBouncer's remit.
One of the PgBouncer's missions is to be a transparent proxy. Sometimes you cannot reach out the database directly due to a security policy. I've heard this backup question a few times. IMO if dbname doesn't matter for reaching the server directly, I don't see a problem relaxing this restriction to support this use case. We just need to document that dbname will be ignored if specified. Other connection poolers might also benefit from it. -- Euler Taveira EDB https://www.enterprisedb.com/
