Django settings when using pgbouncer

Question

I have a Django website with Postgresql backend, for which I\'m utilizing pgbouncer for db connection pooling (transaction mode).

The application and the DB

Answer 1

All of your DB settings in settings.py should be identical to the settings in your pgbouncer config, except the host in settings.py will point to pgbouncer. You probably need to change 'NAME': 'pgbouncer' to 'NAME': 'db1'. Since you're using a unix socket the port shouldn't matter.