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PAUSE command not working as expected #920

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Hello,
When I issue a command to PAUSE pgcat either globally using PAUSE or at the pool level PAUSE db,user , the command is succeding and SHOW DATABASES shows the paused = 1 but I still see client connections being serviced in pgcat and hitting the database. I am not sure if this is what is expected per documentation. I was expecting to see client connections queing up and backend connections not serving requests..

pgcat=> PAUSE;
PAUSE
pgcat=>

        name            |                                      host                                      | port | database | force_user | pool_size | min_pool_size | reserve_pool |  pool_mode  | max_connections | current_connections | p

aused | disabled
----------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------+----------+------------+-----------+---------------+--------------+-------------+-----------------+---------------------+--
------+----------
stage-db_shard_0_primary | xyz | 5432 | postgres | stage-user | 20 | 3 | 0 | transaction | 20 | 3 |
1 | 0
stage-db_shard_0_replica_0 | abc | 5432 | postgres | stage-user | 20 | 3 | 0 | transaction | 20 | 3 |
1 | 0
stage-db_shard_1_primary | abc | 5432 | postgres | stage-user | 20 | 3 | 0 | transaction | 20 | 3 |
1 | 0
stage-db_shard_1_replica_0 | abc | 5432 | postgres | stage-user | 20 | 3 | 0 | transaction | 20 | 3 |
1 | 0
(4 rows)

But still see queries running in our dashboard

pgcat log shows that its still creating server connections

2025-03-22T03:35:53.271734Z INFO ThreadId(06) pgcat::pool: Creating a new server connection Address { id: 3, host: "stage-datastores-aurora-16.cluster-ro-cjcgwfomiic3.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com", port: 5432, shard: 1, database: "postgres", role: Replica, replica_number: 0, address_index: 1, username: "stage-user", pool_name: "stage-db", mirrors: [], stats: AddressStats { total: AddressStatFields { xact_count: 51, query_count: 51, bytes_received: 3366, bytes_sent: 714, xact_time: 0, query_time: 27, wait_time: 307703, errors: 0 }, current: AddressStatFields { xact_count: 0, query_count: 0, bytes_received: 0, bytes_sent: 0, xact_time: 0, query_time: 0, wait_time: 0, errors: 0 }, averages: AddressStatFields { xact_count: 0, query_count: 0, bytes_received: 0, bytes_sent: 0, xact_time: 0, query_time: 0, wait_time: 0, errors: 0 }, averages_updated: false }, error_count: 0 }

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