From bf4340f40c1eb9cacee4c32e07ba44f2c92bf7c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ruben Fiszel <ruben@windmill.dev>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:46:24 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix: set min_connections(0) to prevent sqlx pool spin loop
 (#8334)

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 backend/src/db_connect.rs | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/backend/src/db_connect.rs b/backend/src/db_connect.rs
index d0f8f3af44..abb3378efc 100644
--- a/backend/src/db_connect.rs
+++ b/backend/src/db_connect.rs
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ pub async fn connect(
     use sqlx::Executor;
     use std::time::Duration;
     let mut pool_options = sqlx::postgres::PgPoolOptions::new()
-        .min_connections((max_connections / 5).clamp(1, max_connections))
+        .min_connections(0)
         .max_connections(max_connections)
         .max_lifetime(Duration::from_secs(30 * 60)); // 30 mins
     if worker_mode {