Talking PostgreSQL with ProxySQL at Percona Live SF 2026
If you’ve been following the PostgreSQL ecosystem, you already know the landscape of connection poolers, load balancers, and high-availability tools has never been more crowded. pgBouncer, Pgpool-II, PgCat, HAProxy, PgDog — there’s no shortage of options, and choosing the right one for your workload can feel overwhelming.
At Percona Live 2026 in San Francisco (May 27–29 at the Computer History Museum), ProxySQL CTO Ronald Bradford with CEO and Founder René Cannaò will be cutting through the noise with the session: ProxySQL – A Perfect Complement to Your PostgreSQL Database.
What the Session Covers
ProxySQL has earned a strong reputation in the MySQL world for its deep feature set — query routing, connection pooling, read/write splitting, advanced monitoring, and more. PostgreSQL practitioners may not yet know that those same capabilities are fully available for PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL wire-compatible databases. This also makes ProxySQL an ideal solution for polygot database infrastructures.
The session gives attendees a structured, head-to-head comparison of the major tools in this space:
- pgBouncer — the widely-used, lightweight connection pooler
- Pgpool-II — read/write splitting and load balancing
- PgCat — connection pooling, read/write splitting, and query routing
- HAProxy + Keepalived — network-level load balancing
- PgDog — horizontal scaling and load balancing
Rather than a simple feature matrix, the comparison is grounded in the real operational concerns teams face: connection management under load, failover behavior, query-level routing intelligence, and operational complexity.
Beyond the Slides
What makes this session particularly useful is that it doesn’t stop at comparison. Ronald will walk through hands-on tutorials that are available today, so you can start evaluating ProxySQL in your own PostgreSQL environment before you ever board a flight to San Francisco.
Why This Matters Now
PostgreSQL adoption continues to accelerate, and with it comes a growing need for the kind of infrastructure tooling that MySQL teams have relied on for years. ProxySQL’s PostgreSQL support brings battle-tested connection management and routing capabilities to the Postgres world — without requiring teams to learn an entirely new tool from scratch.
If you’re running PostgreSQL at scale, managing read replicas, dealing with connection saturation, or simply trying to understand your options before making an architectural decision, this is a session worth building your schedule around.
Join Us in San Francisco
Percona Live 2026 runs May 27–29 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. You can find the full session details and register here.
We’ll see you there.