News, technical articles, and announcements from the ProxySQL team.
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.
by Rene Cannao
Open source databases, community, and the conversations shaping the future.
by Rene Cannao
Resources for continuing the MySQL, PostgreSQL, high availability, observability, and database traffic management conversations from Percona Live 2026.
by Rene Cannao
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.
by Ronald Bradford
Showing ProxySQL as a protocol-aware proxy solution that works with PostgreSQL
by Ronald Bradford
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.
by Rahim Kanji
Benchmarking the PostgreSQL middle tier under SSL — PgBouncer vs ProxySQL (1/2/4 workers), same hardware, same 4KB SELECT workload. pgbench simple mode.
by Rahim Kanji
ProxySQL 3.0.8 extends session-variable tracking beyond parsed SET statements by consuming MySQL session-state notifications from backend OK packets.
by Wazir Ahmed
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.
by Rahim Kanji
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.
by Rahim Kanji
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.
by Rene Cannao
ProxySQL 3.0.7 introduces two new statistics tables for TLS certificate tracking and global proxy metrics.
by Rene Cannao
A deep dive into the protocol hardening, credential protection, and validation improvements in ProxySQL 3.0.7.
by Rene Cannao
How ProxySQL for PostgreSQL handles unplanned primary failure
by Rene' Cannao'
How ProxySQL for PostgreSQL handles unplanned primary failure
by Rene' Cannao'
A deep dive into the Provider interface that makes dbdeployer multi-database. How we abstracted MySQL, added PostgreSQL, and made it extensible for any database.
by Rene' Cannao'
First blog post of a series about ProxySQL for PostgreSQL and how it handles failover
by Rene' Cannao'
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
by Rahim Kanji
ProxySQL 3.0.7 adds native zstd compression for the MySQL protocol, offering better compression ratios and lower CPU overhead compared to zlib.
by Rene Cannao
ProxySQL officially takes over the maintenance and development of Orchestrator, ensuring a bright future for the industry-standard database topology management tool.
by Rene Cannao
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