niwinz / pgbouncer-ng

Simple connection pool for postgresql, written in python.

pgbouncer-ng

Ligthweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL (completely written in python).

Features:

• Without authentication, everything is delegated to postgresql.
• Ssl support, both at the pool, and in connection to postgresql.

How to install?

Fetch latest development branch from github and install this:

git clone git://github.com/niwibe/pgbouncer-ng.git
cd pgbouncer-ng
sudo python setup.py install

NOTE: gevent-1.0b1+ is required dependence.

How to configure:

The configuration is divided into 3 groups: global, local, remote. In global scope you can define limits for pooler. In local scope you can define settings for local pool: bind address or/and port, ssl certificate and ssl private key. And remote scope, you can define settings for remote postgresql connection.

In pgbouncerng.ini has sample/default configuration.

The order of search configuration file is:

• ./pgbouncerng.ini
• ~/.config/pgbouncerng.ini
• /usr/local/etc/pgbouncerng.ini
• /etc/pgbouncerng.ini