Article · In the April 2026 issue

pgx connection-pool defaults will bite you

A short tour of pgxpool defaults, what they mean under load, and what we tuned on TritZaar.API.

Published April 6, 2026

Seed article: MaxConns, MinConns, HealthCheckPeriod, MaxConnLifetime, MaxConnIdleTime — what each of these defaults does, why the default often doesn’t survive production.