Pgpool Global Development Group is pleased to announce the availability of Pgpool-II 4.3.0.
Pgpool-II is a tool to add useful features to PostgreSQL, including: * connection pooling * load balancing * automatic fail over and more. For more information, please see the [website](https://www.pgpool.net/). 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 [here](https://www.pgpool.net/mediawiki/index.php/Downloads). Please take a look at [release notes](https://www.pgpool.net/docs/43/en/html/release-4-3-0.html).
