Connection dies while trying to update Timescale extension

You must connect to your instance directly, not via connection pooling

Written by Alex Thinath
Updated over a week ago

When attempting to upgrade your timescaleDB version using:

ALTER EXTENSION timescaledb

And you run into an error stating "version mismatch:

And you also have connection pooling enabled, It is likely that connection pooling is the issue blocking update. Please connect to your database directly and not via the pool.