diff -r 3c58ea2fd745 -r 68766861debe cubicweb/server/serverconfig.py
--- a/cubicweb/server/serverconfig.py	Fri Feb 03 13:37:32 2017 +0100
+++ b/cubicweb/server/serverconfig.py	Fri Jan 27 18:09:56 2017 +0100
@@ -131,6 +131,11 @@
           'of inactivity. Default to 24h.',
           'group': 'main', 'level': 3,
           }),
+        ('connections-pooler-enabled',
+         {'type': 'yn', 'default': True,
+          'help': 'enable the connection pooler',
+          'group': 'main', 'level': 3,
+          }),
         ('connections-pool-size',
          {'type' : 'int',
           'default': 4,