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PostgreSQL pooler with sharding, load balancing and failover support.

7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2023-06-14 · latest 2026-06-10

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  1. I really wish they'd acknowledge the prior art and name that they've taken inspiration from - https://github.com/postgresml/pgcat Don't pay a startup for your DB proxy, you should own that layer yourself inside of your infrastructure.
  2. You can already do that with pgcat (author’s second project) https://github.com/postgresml/pgcat
  3. …is for code formatting, which is why the URL isn't a link. Don't indent it if you want a link: https://github.com/postgresml/pgcat
  4. …have been kind of normalized, at least in the environments I have been exposed to, with pgcat https://github.com/postgresml/pgcat
    comment by honestSysAdmin · 2025-01-29 · in A major Postgres upgrade with zero downtime
  5. …of our other projects, pgcat is exactly to help make the horizontal scaling as easy as possible. https://github.com/postgresml/pgcat
    comment by montanalow · 2024-07-11 · in Korvus: Single-Query RAG with Postgres
  6. Not natively, no. You’d need to front it with something like PgCat [0]. [0]: https://github.com/postgresml/pgcat
  7. For #1 I've been keeping a keen eye on pgcat [1], in particular the https://github.com/postgresml/pgcat/issues/303 which implies that it should be possible to add support for transaction mode LISTEN/NOTIFY support. [1]…