ProxySQL 3.0.9 and 3.1.9 bring critical security fixes, backend-pool scheduling, ParserSQL, PostgreSQL DNS and SCRAM improvements, Aurora autopurge, and packaging hardening.
Open source databases, community, and the conversations shaping the future.
Resources for continuing the MySQL, PostgreSQL, high availability, observability, and database traffic management conversations from Percona Live 2026.
A step-by-step technical walkthrough to reproduce the Percona Live demo — provision a Linux VM on macOS, deploy PostgreSQL 16–18 sandboxes with dbdeployer, wire ProxySQL, run pgbench, and inspect proxy-side stats.
Showing ProxySQL as a protocol-aware proxy solution that works with PostgreSQL
Part 4 of the PgBouncer to ProxySQL series. Benchmarks ProxySQL and PgBouncer under PostgreSQL's extended and prepared query protocols. ProxySQL keeps the lead and widens it as worker threads increase.
Benchmarking the PostgreSQL middle tier under SSL — PgBouncer vs ProxySQL (1/2/4 workers), same hardware, same 4KB SELECT workload. pgbench simple mode.
Part 2 of the PgBouncer to ProxySQL series. A direct comparison of what each tool does, focused on responsibilities PgBouncer deliberately leaves alone and that ProxySQL pulls into the proxy itself. Reflects ProxySQL 3.0.8 and PgBouncer 1.25.1 at time of writing.
Part 1 of the PgBouncer to ProxySQL series. Focus: architecture and operator model, not a full feature matrix. Reflects ProxySQL 3.0.7 and PgBouncer 1.25.1 at time of writing.
ProxySQL 3.0.8 introduces MySQL session-variable tracking, PostgreSQL Cluster Sync, per-server backend SSL, and mid-transaction recovery. Also announcing 3.1.8 and 4.0.8.
How ProxySQL for PostgreSQL handles unplanned primary failure
How ProxySQL for PostgreSQL handles unplanned primary failure
First blog post of a series about ProxySQL for PostgreSQL and how it handles failover
A walk-through of the PostgreSQL prepared-statement cache refactor — what was slow, why, and how the redesign turned a contended path into a contention-free one
ProxySQL officially takes over the maintenance and development of Orchestrator, ensuring a bright future for the industry-standard database topology management tool.
Built-in Time-Series Metrics, No Prometheus Required. Query Your Metrics History Directly from ProxySQL
ProxySQL Is Coming to Percona Live 2026 – And It's Not Just for MySQL Anymore
Fast Forward Mode Is No Longer a Blind Spot
Today we are excited to announce the release of ProxySQL 3.0.6 Stable, alongside our new Innovative (3.1.6) and AI/MCP (4.0.6) release tiers.
ProxySQL is a gold sponsor at PGConf India 2026 in Bengaluru, delivering a 3-hour hands-on tutorial on high availability, connection pooling, and query routing for PostgreSQL at scale.
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