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On the Hacker News front page Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler · 262 points
Jan 23
On the Hacker News front page Replacing Protobuf with Rust · 183 points
Apr 15, 2025
On the Hacker News front page Hacking the Postgres wire protocol · 229 points
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PgDog - Horizontal scaling for PostgreSQL
PgDog is an open-source connection pooler, load balancer, and sharding proxy for PostgreSQL.
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Reshard Button
PgDog is an open-source connection pooler, load balancer, and sharding proxy for PostgreSQL.
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Replacing Protobuf with Rust to go 5 times faster
Forking pg_query.rs to replace Protobuf with bindgen-generated direct C-to-Rust struct mappings, yielding 5x faster query parsing and 10x faster deparsing in PgDog.
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You should shard your database
An on-call story about a 300 GB sequential scan, what default_statistics_target really controls, and why tuning autovacuum eventually loses to horizontal sharding.
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How we fixed Postgres connection pooling on serverless with PgDog
We were afraid to deploy during business hours. Not because of bad code, but because our connection pooler couldn't handle the spike. Every deploy to Vercel spun up a flood of new serverless functions, each one grabbing a database connection. The pooler w
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10-50 est. staff