On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 5:23 PM Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
> A general question on this feature: AFAICT, you can only send the proxy
> header once at the beginning of the connection. So this wouldn't be of
> use for PostgreSQL-protocol connection poolers (pgbouncer, pgpool),
> where the same server connection can be used for clients from different
> source addresses. Do I understand that correctly?
Correct. It's only sent at connection startup, so if you're re-using
the connection it would also re-use the IP address of the first one.
For reusing the connection for multiple clients, you'd want something
different, like a "priviliged mode in the tunnel" that the pooler can
handle.
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