Since in this mode pgbouncer creates outbound connection for each inbound connection it seems to me that pgbouncer doesn't work as pooler. It's just 1 to 1 mapping.
Where am I wrong?
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There would be 1 connection to the server for each connection to pgbouncer, but not necessarily a new connection. When a connection to pgbouncer is closed it doesn't close the connection to the server, just makes that connection available to the pool. Then when a new connection comes in, that pooled connection can be reused.
If the connections to pgbouncer are generally long-lived ones, this might not be of much benefit. But, if there are a lot of short connections, it could result in a major improvement.
There was an excellect blog post published recently about pgbouncer, and the different modes of operation.
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