Add option to retry connection creation, on by default #149
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Fix for #102
Overall I agree with the point that connection retries are good and transient errors are common. However, sometimes the application knows better. E.g. we use bb8 in https://github.com/levkk/pgcat and during database restarts, we don't want bb8 to retry because we know the database is down (just for a few seconds), and we have logic to handle and back-off in our code. In our situation, we have thousands of clients creating a thundering herd of retries.
This PR makes the retries optional, enabled by default to preserve existing behavior.