# PgBouncer

Lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL, written in C.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/pgbouncer/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-30
Listed since: 2026-10-30

## Record

### Links

- home: https://www.pgbouncer.org
- repository: https://github.com/pgbouncer/pgbouncer
- docs: https://www.pgbouncer.org/config.html

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Marko Kreen
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2007
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: database
- hosting: binary
- language: c
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: postgres
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: build-from-source-autoconf

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: ISC

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-14

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 4424
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 116
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://www.pgbouncer.org/ (read 2026-10-30)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/pgbouncer/pgbouncer (read 2026-10-30)
- urls: https://www.pgbouncer.org/config.html (read 2026-10-30)
- maintainer: https://github.com/pgbouncer/pgbouncer/blob/master/COPYRIGHT (read 2026-10-30)
- maintainerType: https://github.com/pgbouncer/pgbouncer/blob/master/COPYRIGHT (read 2026-10-30)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/pgbouncer/pgbouncer (read 2026-10-30)
- runtime: https://www.pgbouncer.org/install.html (read 2026-10-30)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/pgbouncer/pgbouncer/releases/latest (read 2026-10-30)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/pgbouncer/pgbouncer/releases/latest (read 2026-10-30)
- firstRelease: https://www.pgbouncer.org/changelog.html (read 2026-10-30)
- license: https://github.com/pgbouncer/pgbouncer/blob/master/COPYRIGHT (read 2026-10-30)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/pgbouncer/pgbouncer/blob/master/COPYRIGHT (read 2026-10-30)
- category: https://www.pgbouncer.org/ (read 2026-10-30)
- databases: https://www.pgbouncer.org/ (read 2026-10-30)
- runsAs: https://www.pgbouncer.org/install.html (read 2026-10-30)
- installMethod: https://www.pgbouncer.org/install.html (read 2026-10-30)
- installMethod: https://www.pgbouncer.org/install.html (read 2026-10-30)
- installMethod: https://www.pgbouncer.org/downloads/ (read 2026-10-30)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/pgbouncer/pgbouncer (read 2026-10-30)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/pgbouncer/pgbouncer/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-30)

## Notes

PgBouncer is a connection pooler for PostgreSQL. The project builds it from C source with Autoconf or Meson, and its settings are listed in the [configuration reference](https://www.pgbouncer.org/config.html). The install page describes running it as a Windows service, and it can validate pooler users through LDAP or PAM when built with those libraries.

## Worth knowing

The install page calls Autoconf the recommended choice for production builds and marks the Meson build as experimental.

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