PgBouncer
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Jun 10, 2026first mention
Aug 16, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“you’re also probably going to need a connection pooling proxy like pgbouncer!”
experience with horizontally scaled appson “The startup's Postgres survival guide”
“having hundreds of open connections to Postgres is bad for performance if you can use PgBouncer or similar to cut it by 90%”
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“PgBouncer works great for us with Vercel Workers.”
“PgBouncer is a great piece of software. We use that heavily”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer? 2 mentions
- The startup's Postgres survival guide 2 mentions
- We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput 2 mentions
- PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you 1 mention
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All comments 7
“Bouncer is a nice option, but definitely not required.”
“Pgbouncer has been good for us, but it's limited in how we can deploy it in a multi-tenant environment.”
“you’re also probably going to need a connection pooling proxy like pgbouncer!”
“having hundreds of open connections to Postgres is bad for performance if you can use PgBouncer or similar to cut it by 90%”
“PgBouncer works great for us with Vercel Workers.”
“PgBouncer is a great piece of software. We use that heavily”
“We use logical replication and a pause / swap in pgbouncer for ~5s of paused (but not failed) writes.”