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A comprehensive guide to PgBouncer/Postgres compatibility

My previous post, PgBouncer is important, useful, and fraught with peril, was a deep dive into Postgres feature compatibility with different modes of PgBouncer. I’m happy with how it came out and it was well received. I think it is the most comprehensive guide to Postgres/PgBouncer compatibility …

PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril

Updated 2024-09-17 to reflect updated PgBouncer support for protocol-level prepared statements 🐘 To start, I want to say that I’m appreciative that PgBouncer exists and the work its open source maintainers put into it. I also love working with PostgreSQL, and I’m thankful for the incredible amount …