On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 at 16:50, Jelte Fennema <postg...@jeltef.nl> wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 at 16:01, Euler Taveira <eu...@eulerto.com> wrote: > > 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. > > Indeed the transparent proxy use case is where replication through > pgbouncer makes sense. There's quite some reasons to set up PgBouncer > like such a proxy apart from security policies. Some others that come > to mind are: > - load balancer layer of pgbouncers > - transparent failovers > - transparent database moves > > And in all of those cases its nice for a user to use a single > connection string/hostname. Instead of having to think: Oh yeah, for > backups, I need to use this other one.
Okay, understood. In that case, please remember to write changes to the pg_basebackup docs page explaining how the dbname value is ignored under normal usage. Thom
