Understanding user management in PgBouncer

PgBouncer is a popular connection proxy and pooler for PostgreSQL. As PgBouncer presents a PostgreSQL protocol interface to client applications, it also handles client authentication. For that, it maintains its...
June 15, 2020

PG Phriday: PgBouncer or Bust

What is the role of PgBouncer in a Postgres High Availability stack? What even is PgBouncer at the end of the day? Is it a glorified traffic cop, or an...
January 11, 2019

PG Phriday: Securing PgBouncer

We all love PgBouncer. It’s a great way to multiplex tens, hundreds, or even thousands of client connections to a small handful of Postgres sessions. What isn’t necessarily so endearing...
April 20, 2018

PG Phriday: Getting RAD with Docker [Part 4]

PgBouncer is a popular proxy and pooling layer for Postgres. It’s extremely common to reconfigure PgBouncer with repmgr so it always directs connections to the current primary node. It just...
December 08, 2017

PgBouncer 1.7 - "Colors Vary After Resurrection"

PgBouncer is a lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL. PgBouncer 1.7 was announced on the 18th of December 2015. In this blog post we’ll talk about the major new improvements in...
February 03, 2016

What's New in PgBouncer 1.6

PgBouncer is a lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL. PgBouncer 1.6 was announced on the 1st of August 2015. In this blog post we’ll talk about the major new improvements in...
August 23, 2015