PgDog is an open source connection pooler, load balancer, and sharding proxy for PostgreSQL. It's Postgres-compliant, fast, secure and built in the open by a community of database engineers.
We've been working on PgDog for over a year. It's running in production, serving over 2M queries per second across dozens of deployments. Sharding is working, too! Building PgDog in the open has been really great: our users and customers contribute features and bug fixes, every day. Give it a try and let us know what you think!
About PgDog on Product Hunt
“Scale PostgreSQL without changing your app”
PgDog launched on Product Hunt on July 14th, 2026 and earned 199 upvotes and 22 comments, placing #4 on the daily leaderboard. PgDog is an open source connection pooler, load balancer, and sharding proxy for PostgreSQL. It's Postgres-compliant, fast, secure and built in the open by a community of database engineers.
On the analytics side, PgDog competes within Open Source, Developer Tools and Database — topics that collectively have 586.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how PgDog performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted PgDog?
PgDog was hunted by Garry Tan. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of PgDog including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Garry Tan