Postgres Connection Pooling and Proxies

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  • pgcat

    Discontinued PostgreSQL pooler with sharding, load balancing and failover support. [Moved to: https://github.com/postgresml/pgcat] (by levkk)

  • pgcat is pgbouncer rewritten in Rust with support for load balancing between replicas, failover in case a replica fails a health check, and sharding at the pooler level.

  • pgbouncer

    lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL

  • pgbouncer is the go-to tool made for connection pooling only.

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  • odyssey

    Scalable PostgreSQL connection pooler

  • Odyssey, developed by Yandex, is a newer solution for pooling. While Pgbouncer is a single-threaded pooler, Odyssey supports multi-core and multi-threaded processing. The tool has the following features:

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