PR seems to be missing tests.

I would really need this feature for knex since now if create fails due to bad DB setup, pool just waits until acquireConnectionTimeout.

This feature would allow us to decide if we want to wait only in that case if create() method itself is waiting or pool is full. We would get an error directly in case if create() call rejected. For now it looks like I need to implement timeout back to knex side or do some other nasty hacks.

@coopernurse If this PR is fixed is will it be merged?

I have re-based my pull request against latest version.

I've added tests for maxTries feature.
Could you merge this PR?
I really need it. As I can see many others need this functionality too.

Is it hard to merge this PR? We desperately need in ability to stop attempts to create resource (attach to database in our case) after first try failed.

Is it possible to use the existing

pool.on('factoryCreateError', function(err){
 //log stuff maybe
})

to achieve the same outcome, or is that sufficiently overcomplicated to pipe together?

Consider we are pooling connections to db server. Somehow wrong login/password were specified. Current behavior is that the library will try to reconnect again and again... Correct work in this case would be only one attempt and then throw exception to a calling code.

Now, to emulate this we do first connection without pooling. If it succeeds then we disconnect and run through pool library. If it fails we analyze return value and throw appropriate exception.

Callback factoryCreateErrorwould be useful if we could:

1. know exactly which acquire call fails
2. stop further attempts
3. bubble up exception to a calling code

@gsbelarus is it your own code which is using node-pool or 3rd party library?

We ended up writing our own pool implementation which hat that error propagation feature in addition to various timeout configurations to be used with knex. You migth want to take a look https://github.com/vincit/tarn.js propagateCreateError is the option for that.

That pool was written for knex, so it will probably not get any additional features in the future, but those current features are really robust.

Thanks! Will give it a try.

Please resolve the conflicts and I will be happy to merge this!