15 engineers on Hacker News describe using PgBouncer first-hand: 4 endorse it, 5 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“We run pgbouncer via kubernetes so it was straightforward to make multiple pgbouncer processes on one machine.”
endorse · production · nosefrog · 2026-07-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've run into so many issues with PgBouncer and Postgres that I wish we didn't have to deal with as a new growing company.”
regret · production · netswift · 2026-06-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“About 5 years ago we migrated to postgres and installed pgBouncer because of course you do. Sometime last year I started seeing some weird issues”
regret · production · 4 yr · physicles · 2023-09-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“connection limits, even with pgbouncer, have been a big support burden for us.”
regret · production · chasers · 2023-08-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The only thing that really caused some discomfort in the beginning was our setup of pgBouncer.”
mixed · production · mthomassen · 2020-09-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“pgbouncer didn't play very well with the aurora reader endpoints and we had to mess around with that.”
regret · production · phamilton · 2020-04-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Yes, we use a cascade of PgBouncers. But it's hard to maintain, actually.”
regret · production · x4m · 2019-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use PgBouncer for connection pooling... We've noticed PgBouncer is more performant at handling thousands of simultaneous connections.”
endorse · production · narsil · 2014-08-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“PGBouncer been rock solid compared to PgPool.”
endorse · production · roncohen · 2013-06-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Using something like PgBouncer helps tremendously, but it still is contingent on there being idle connections.”
endorse · production · nirvdrum · 2011-05-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched from pgbouncer to client side pooling to simplify our architecture, and we noticed no degradation in any major metrics.”
neutral · production · jdreaver · 2022-01-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Run pgbouncer on all our hosts and application connect to localhost.”
neutral · production · phamilton · 2021-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This was the solution that we used at MX Logic in the early years, before we moved to pgbouncer and went back to long-lived stateless connection pools.”
neutral · production · syncsynchalt · 2017-04-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we added pgbouncer to the stack last week and will hopefully don't have much problems here anymore.”
neutral · production · some_developer · 2017-04-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've seen crashes in production when using that which led me to go back to pgbouncer.”
neutral · production · pilif · 2014-09-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?