diff --git a/packages/shared/src/environment/multiRegionConfig.ts b/packages/shared/src/environment/multiRegionConfig.ts
index 27c504165..7774126bd 100644
--- a/packages/shared/src/environment/multiRegionConfig.ts
+++ b/packages/shared/src/environment/multiRegionConfig.ts
@@ -141,8 +141,10 @@ export const createKnexConfig = ({
     pool: {
       min: 0,
       max: maxConnections,
-      acquireTimeoutMillis: 16000, //allows for 3x creation attempts plus idle time between attempts
-      createTimeoutMillis: 5000
+      acquireTimeoutMillis: 16000, // If the maximum number of connections is reached, it wait for 16 seconds trying to acquire an existing connection before throwing a timeout error.
+      createTimeoutMillis: 5000 // If no existing connection is available and the maximum number of connections is not yet reached, the pool will try to create a new connection for 5 seconds before throwing a timeout error.
+      // createRetryIntervalMillis: 200, // Irrelevant & ignored because propogateCreateError is true.
+      // propagateCreateError: true // The propagateCreateError is set to true by default in Knex and throws a TimeoutError if the first create connection to the database fails. Knex recommends that this value is NOT set to false, despite what 'helpful' people on Stackoverflow tell you: https://github.com/knex/knex/issues/3455#issuecomment-535554401
     }
   }
 }