Pgpool Global Development Group is pleased to announce the availability of Pgpool-II 4.5 beta1. This is not intended to be used in production but it is close to the release version. So users are encouraged to test it out.
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/). V4.5 contains new features and enhancements, including: * Allow to use multiple statements in a query string. * Allow to set delay_threshold_by_time in milliseconds. * Avoid session disconnection issue in failover/failback/backend error in some cases. * Allow to route queries to a specific backend node for a specific user connection. * Support multiple directories specification for pcp_socket_dir. * Import PostgreSQL 16's SQL parser. You can download it from [here](https://pgpool.net/mediawiki/index.php/Developer_releases). Please take a look at [release notes](https://www.pgpool.net/docs/45/en/html/release-4-5-0.html).
