## TL;DR

Change the conneciton pool size via doctl Describe the solution you'd like doctl databases pool update database123id poolname123id --size 2 In the WebUI you can change the pool size, so i dont understand why this is not working via doctl itself?

## Steps

1. How to add ability to change connection pool size for connection pools.

2. Issue digitalocean/doctl#1553 (closed, 5 comments): **What is the problem this feature would solve? Please describe.** Change the conneciton pool size via doctl **Describe the solution you'd like** doctl databases pool update database123id poolname123id --size 2 In the WebUI you can change the pool size, so i dont understand why this is not working via doctl itself?

3. When updating a managed database connection pool, leaving out --user resets the pool to the connecting user's privileges. Pass --user explicitly with the new size: `doctl databases pool update [database-uuid] [pool-name] --size [size] --user [username]`.

## When to use

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## Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

## Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

## Sources

- https://github.com/digitalocean/doctl/issues/1553