PgDog

“We've had several successful pgcat -> pgdog migrations now.”

“It was built to fix some of PgBouncers shortcomings that we ran into at Instacart”

“pgdog is particularly testable since it is trying for complete transparency”

“The fact that PgDog supports prepared statements is a compelling feature in and of itself.”

“looks extremely amazing on paper and goes way beyond multi threading”

“these can scale out horizontally, so you get true unlimited scale”

“I'd have a hard time convincing my boss to go with PGDog over a more stable and tested solution.”

“being compatible with Postgres partitions has been advantageous”

“We used `pgdog` as a proxy during a recent database backend migration (Heroku -> EC2 -> RDS) and it was much smoother than PgBouncer.”

“it's not doing magic, you still have to be aware how it works and the limitations of sharding”

“One feature we quite like (of the proxy) is the handling of different connection settings per connection”

“It's still providing value by reusing connections, which are particularly expensive in postgres.”

“Lev understands this space better than anyone else.”

“Love PgDog. I don't need it honestly, but using it in my on-prem k8s”

“I'd love to advocate for PgDog if there were more than 2 managed service providers”

“Even with a proxy like PgDog the Postgres sharding story isn't solved.”

“The PgDog project has been around for a while, it's not vibe coded.”

“Load balancer with health checks and failover, works out of the box. Battle-tested at this point too, so could be worth a look.”

“We successfully did this with pgdog at $JOB using our own "controller"”

“That's exactly right. Get in touch (lev@pgdog.dev), happy to help or at the very least tell you what current works”

“You can deploy it anywhere already without having to wait for upstreaming”

“They are not just some random 3 have decades of real db experience behind them.”

“looks like PgDog solves the above problems for any future work?”

“it doesn't have any cross-dependencies on the same volume, so the uptime here should be higher”

“You'd need a ton of faith in these 3 people.”

“This solves the thousands of clients case for read in a way that is transparent to the clients.”

“It's been incredibly stable. It's nifty how they've solved the LISTEN/NOTIFY on a transaction pooler problem.”

“It really helped us scale our connection proxy needs pretty substantially”

“I've moved from pgbouncer to pgdog a few months ago without issue.”

“it cached authentication requests when doing passthrough it seems”

“Now we're used in production by some pretty big companies, which is exciting!”

“having the proxy absorb that chaos at the wire protocol level is much better than trying to handle it in application code”

“What you've been able to achieve is nothing less than a miracle.”

“it crashed when doing a very specific bulk load”

“Incredible. I am really interested in trying pgdog for our B2B SAAS product.”

“Looks great - I'd love to include it in https://postgresisenough.dev”

“It feels better now, but we still need to add crash protection”

“I can recommend it from a user perspective as a connection pooler”

“does more tracking that mitigates some of these issues”

“working on proper sharding and failovers from a connection pooler standpoint”