PgDog
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Jan 23, 2026first mention
Jul 11, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I've been using pgdog (https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog) and it has worked really well for my needs!”
“it was much smoother than PgBouncer”
migrated Heroku -> EC2 -> RDSswitched from PgBounceron “PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you”
Show 3 more
“we use the AWS secrets manager flowing into External Secrets Operator to generate a pgdog_users.toml”
“I've moved from pgbouncer to pgdog a few months ago without issue. Huge fan.”
switched from PgBounceron “PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you”
“Gotta say, I love using PGDog. It has some fantastic built in features”
runs a PgDog fleeton “Replacing Protobuf with Rust to go 5 times faster”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Take a look at our Docker demo in GitHub”
Threads where it came up
Data: pgdog.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“I've been using pgdog (https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog) and it has worked really well for my needs!”
“it was much smoother than PgBouncer”
“If I do a cross-shard query with PgDog, can it somehow use the same MVCC version on all shards?”
“we use the AWS secrets manager flowing into External Secrets Operator to generate a pgdog_users.toml”
“I've moved from pgbouncer to pgdog a few months ago without issue. Huge fan.”
“Gotta say, I love using PGDog. It has some fantastic built in features”