From c1992f7616f786cfa970b8ce22f3776ece37ed10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pigwin <peder.vatn.austad@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 20:27:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] configure database connection settings for improved
 performance

---
 config/db.go | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/config/db.go b/config/db.go
index a65ea92..de0cc32 100644
--- a/config/db.go
+++ b/config/db.go
@@ -28,6 +28,15 @@ func ConnectToPostgreSQL() (*sql.DB, error) {
 
 	fmt.Println("Connection to PostgreSQL opened successfully :D")
 
+    // Set the maximum number of open connections to 20
+    db.SetMaxOpenConns(20)
+
+    // Set the maximum number of idle connections to 10
+    db.SetMaxIdleConns(10)
+
+    // Set the maximum connection lifetime to 1 hour
+    db.SetConnMaxLifetime(1 * time.Hour)
+
 	// Ping database to verify connection
 	err = db.Ping()