Episode 54
Connection poolers
Postgres FM · Nikolay Samokhvalov and Michael Christofides
July 14, 202331m 29s
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Show Notes
Nikolay and Michael discuss Postgres connection poolers — when and why we need them, the king that is PgBouncer, and the many new pretenders to the throne.
Here are links to a few things they mentioned:
- max_connections https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-connection.html#GUC-MAX-CONNECTIONS
- Improving Postgres Connection Scalability: Snapshots (blog post by Andres Freund) https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-postgresql/improving-postgres-connection-scalability-snapshots/ba-p/1806462
- PgBouncer https://github.com/pgbouncer/pgbouncer
- Odyssey https://github.com/yandex/odyssey
- PgCat https://github.com/postgresml/pgcat
- Adopting PgCat: A Nextgen Postgres Proxy https://www.instacart.com/company/how-its-made/adopting-pgcat-a-nextgen-postgres-proxy/
- Supavisor https://github.com/supabase/supavisor
- pgagroal https://github.com/agroal/pgagroal
- PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril (blog post from JP Camara) https://jpcamara.com/2023/04/12/pgbouncer-is-useful.html
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