Why We Built PgDog to Fix Postgres Connection Pooling Leaks

Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler

I built PgDog to solve the leaky abstractions found in existing Postgres connection poolers like PgBouncer and RDS Proxy. Unlike traditional tools that force you to abandon session control features such as SET commands and LISTEN/NOTIFY, PgDog handles these internally using a built-in SQL parser and multithreaded Rust architecture. This approach allows applications to scale to millions of queries per second without rewriting production code or sacrificing critical database functionality.

"If you’re not allowed to use a database feature, you are making a trade-off and have to change how you write your apps."