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PSA to my Postgres people: use a connection pooler. Incredible article on when and why to use PgBouncer. Includes a great explanation of how increasing direct connections leads to more contention → degraded performance. (+ benchmarks too!)

22/12/25, 2:16 pm0 reposts2 likes

Ben

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22 Dec 2025

Read here: brandur.org/postgres-con...

brandur.orgHow to Manage Connections Efficiently in Postgres, or Any DatabaseHitting the limit for maximum allowed connections is a common operational problem in Postgres. Here we look at a few techniques for managing connections and making efficient use of those that are avai...