diff --git a/bitnami/pgpool/4/debian-12/Dockerfile b/bitnami/pgpool/4/debian-12/Dockerfile
index bc868a26af87..3afa45e8c237 100644
--- a/bitnami/pgpool/4/debian-12/Dockerfile
+++ b/bitnami/pgpool/4/debian-12/Dockerfile
@@ -7,10 +7,12 @@ ARG TARGETARCH
 
 LABEL com.vmware.cp.artifact.flavor="sha256:c50c90cfd9d12b445b011e6ad529f1ad3daea45c26d20b00732fae3cd71f6a83" \
       org.opencontainers.image.base.name="docker.io/bitnami/minideb:bookworm" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.created="2024-03-31T18:49:10Z" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.created="2024-04-23T18:53:10Z" \
       org.opencontainers.image.description="Application packaged by VMware, Inc" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.documentation="https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/pgpool/README.md" \
       org.opencontainers.image.licenses="Apache-2.0" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="4.5.1-debian-12-r2" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="4.5.1-debian-12-r3" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/pgpool" \
       org.opencontainers.image.title="pgpool" \
       org.opencontainers.image.vendor="VMware, Inc." \
       org.opencontainers.image.version="4.5.1"
@@ -26,7 +28,7 @@ SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-o", "errexit", "-o", "nounset", "-o", "pipefail", "-c"]
 RUN install_packages ca-certificates curl ldap-utils libaudit1 libbsd0 libcap-ng0 libcom-err2 libcrypt1 libedit2 libffi8 libgcc-s1 libgmp10 libgnutls30 libgssapi-krb5-2 libhogweed6 libicu72 libidn2-0 libk5crypto3 libkeyutils1 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0 libldap-2.5-0 libldap-common liblzma5 libmd0 libnettle8 libnss-ldapd libp11-kit0 libpam-ldapd libpam0g libpq5 libsasl2-2 libssl3 libstdc++6 libtasn1-6 libtinfo6 libunistring2 libuuid1 libxml2 libxslt1.1 nslcd procps zlib1g
 RUN mkdir -p /tmp/bitnami/pkg/cache/ ; cd /tmp/bitnami/pkg/cache/ ; \
     COMPONENTS=( \
-      "wait-for-port-1.0.7-10-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-12" \
+      "wait-for-port-1.0.7-11-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-12" \
       "postgresql-client-14.11.0-2-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-12" \
       "pgpool-4.5.1-0-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-12" \
     ) ; \
diff --git a/bitnami/pgpool/4/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/.bitnami_components.json b/bitnami/pgpool/4/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/.bitnami_components.json
index ee2e07805fef..9c506bd39e7f 100644
--- a/bitnami/pgpool/4/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/.bitnami_components.json
+++ b/bitnami/pgpool/4/debian-12/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/.bitnami_components.json
@@ -15,6 +15,6 @@
         "arch": "amd64",
         "distro": "debian-12",
         "type": "NAMI",
-        "version": "1.0.7-10"
+        "version": "1.0.7-11"
     }
 }
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diff --git a/bitnami/pgpool/4/debian-12/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libpgpool.sh b/bitnami/pgpool/4/debian-12/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libpgpool.sh
index d843d3534ded..17693174b1e2 100644
--- a/bitnami/pgpool/4/debian-12/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libpgpool.sh
+++ b/bitnami/pgpool/4/debian-12/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libpgpool.sh
@@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ export PGPOOL_AUTO_FAILBACK="${PGPOOL_AUTO_FAILBACK:-no}"
 export PGPOOL_BACKEND_APPLICATION_NAMES="${PGPOOL_BACKEND_APPLICATION_NAMES:-}"
 export PGPOOL_AUTHENTICATION_METHOD="${PGPOOL_AUTHENTICATION_METHOD:-scram-sha-256}"
 export PGPOOL_AES_KEY="${PGPOOL_AES_KEY:-$(head -c 20 /dev/urandom | base64)}"
+export PGPOOL_FAILOVER_ON_BACKEND_SHUTDOWN="${PGPOOL_FAILOVER_ON_BACKEND_SHUTDOWN:-on}"
+export PGPOOL_FAILOVER_ON_BACKEND_ERROR="${PGPOOL_FAILOVER_ON_BACKEND_ERROR:-off}"
 
 # SSL
 export PGPOOL_ENABLE_TLS="${PGPOOL_ENABLE_TLS:-no}"
@@ -505,7 +507,8 @@ pgpool_create_config() {
     pgpool_set_property "connect_timeout" "$PGPOOL_CONNECT_TIMEOUT"
     # Failover settings
     pgpool_set_property "failover_command" "echo \">>> Failover - that will initialize new primary node search!\""
-    pgpool_set_property "failover_on_backend_error" "off"
+    pgpool_set_property "failover_on_backend_error" "$PGPOOL_FAILOVER_ON_BACKEND_ERROR"
+    pgpool_set_property "failover_on_backend_shutdown" "$PGPOOL_FAILOVER_ON_BACKEND_SHUTDOWN"
     # Keeps searching for a primary node forever when a failover occurs
     pgpool_set_property "search_primary_node_timeout" "0"
     pgpool_set_property "disable_load_balance_on_write" "$PGPOOL_DISABLE_LOAD_BALANCE_ON_WRITE"