PgDog: A new Postgres connection pooler for horizontal scaling
By
Lev Kokotov
Summary
PgDog is a new Postgres connection pooler and proxy that enables horizontal scaling of PostgreSQL without rewriting applications. The article explains why the team built yet another connection pooler despite existing solutions like PgBouncer, RDS Proxy, and Pgpool-II. It argues that most existing tools follow the UNIX philosophy too rigidly, creating leaky abstractions that don't handle modern scaling needs well. PgDog aims to combine connection pooling, load balancing, and sharding into a single coherent proxy solution.
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PgDog is a proxy for scaling Postgres.
One of its features is connection pooling, which allows many client applications to use the same database without exceeding its connection limit.
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