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News, technical articles, and announcements from the ProxySQL team.

Orchestrator for PostgreSQL: the HA brain, now first-party
April 22, 2026 Tech

Orchestrator for PostgreSQL: the HA brain, now first-party

How ProxySQL for PostgreSQL handles unplanned primary failure

#ha #postgresql #failover #orchestrator

by Rene' Cannao'

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ProxySQL for PostgreSQL — Surviving an unplanned primary failure
April 21, 2026 Tech

ProxySQL for PostgreSQL — Surviving an unplanned primary failure

How ProxySQL for PostgreSQL handles unplanned primary failure

#ha #postgresql #failover

by Rene' Cannao'

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The Provider Architecture — How dbdeployer Learned to Speak PostgreSQL
April 19, 2026 Tech

The Provider Architecture — How dbdeployer Learned to Speak PostgreSQL

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.

#Open Source #dbdeployer #ProxySQL #MySQL #PostgreSQL #Database Tools #Developer Tools #Database Testing #Community #Maintainership

by Rene' Cannao'

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ProxySQL for PostgreSQL — the failover model
April 18, 2026 Tech

ProxySQL for PostgreSQL — the failover model

First blog post of a series about ProxySQL for PostgreSQL and how it handles failover

#ha #postgresql #failover

by Rene' Cannao'

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ProxySQL's prepared statement cache refactor, explained
April 17, 2026 Tech

ProxySQL's prepared statement cache refactor, explained

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

#proxysql #proxysql-3-0 #postgresql #prepared-statements #high-performance #concurrency

by Rahim Kanji

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zstd Compression Support in ProxySQL 3.0.7
April 16, 2026 Tech

zstd Compression Support in ProxySQL 3.0.7

ProxySQL 3.0.7 adds native zstd compression for the MySQL protocol, offering better compression ratios and lower CPU overhead compared to zlib.

#proxysql-3-0 #mysql #compression #performance

by Rene Cannao

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Announcing the future of Orchestrator: ProxySQL takes takes the helm
April 9, 2026 Release

Announcing the future of Orchestrator: ProxySQL takes takes the helm

ProxySQL officially takes over the maintenance and development of Orchestrator, ensuring a bright future for the industry-standard database topology management tool.

#orchestrator #proxysql #mysql #postgresql #open-source

by Rene Cannao

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Announcing ProxySQL 3.0.7, 3.1.7, and 4.0.7
April 7, 2026 Release

Announcing ProxySQL 3.0.7, 3.1.7, and 4.0.7

ProxySQL 3.0.7 brings protocol hardening, zstd compression, TLS certificate tracking, and new security improvements. Also announcing 3.1.7 and 4.0.7.

#proxysql-3-0 #security #tls #compression #open-source #ztd

by Rene Cannao

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What's Coming to dbdeployer
April 5, 2026 Tech

What's Coming to dbdeployer

A preview of the features we're shipping — from InnoDB Cluster to PostgreSQL support. This is just the beginning.

#Open Source #dbdeployer #ProxySQL #MySQL #PostgreSQL #Database Tools #Developer Tools #Database Testing #Community #Maintainership

by Rene' Cannao'

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Why dbdeployer Matters to Me — and Why ProxySQL Took Over Its Maintenance
April 4, 2026 Release

Why dbdeployer Matters to Me — and Why ProxySQL Took Over Its Maintenance

A first look at why this project matters, why we decided to maintain it, and why supporting tools for both MySQL and PostgreSQL is part of our broader open source commitment

#Open Source #dbdeployer #ProxySQL #MySQL #PostgreSQL #Database Tools #Developer Tools #Database Testing #Community #Maintainership

by Rene Cannao

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ProxySQL 3.1.6: Embedded TSDB for Built-in Time-Series Metrics
April 3, 2026 Release

ProxySQL 3.1.6: Embedded TSDB for Built-in Time-Series Metrics

Built-in Time-Series Metrics, No Prometheus Required. Query Your Metrics History Directly from ProxySQL

#proxysql-3-1 #mysql #postgresql #open-source #query-analysis #visibility #monitoring #metrics-history #tsdb

by Rene Cannao

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Talking PostgreSQL with ProxySQL at Percona Live SF 2026
March 30, 2026 Event

Talking PostgreSQL with ProxySQL at Percona Live SF 2026

ProxySQL Is Coming to Percona Live 2026 – And It's Not Just for MySQL Anymore

#postgresql #postgres #proxysql #percona #pgbouncer

by Ronald Bradford

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ProxySQL 3.1.6: Full Query Observability in Fast Forward Mode with FFTO
March 23, 2026 Release

ProxySQL 3.1.6: Full Query Observability in Fast Forward Mode with FFTO

Fast Forward Mode Is No Longer a Blind Spot

#proxysql-3-0 #mysql #postgresql #open-source #query-analysis #visibility

by Rene Cannao

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Announcing ProxySQL 3.0.6 and the New Multi-Tier Release Strategy
March 11, 2026 Release

Announcing ProxySQL 3.0.6 and the New Multi-Tier Release Strategy

Today we are excited to announce the release of ProxySQL 3.0.6 Stable, alongside our new Innovative (3.1.6) and AI/MCP (4.0.6) release tiers.

#proxysql-3-0 #postgresql #open-source #ai #mcp

by Rene Cannao

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Supercharge Your PostgreSQL with ProxySQL
March 4, 2026 Event

Supercharge Your PostgreSQL with ProxySQL

ProxySQL is a gold sponsor at PGConf India 2026 in Bengaluru, delivering a 3-hour hands-on tutorial on high availability, connection pooling, and query routing for PostgreSQL at scale.

#postgresql #postgres #high-availability #events

by Ronald Bradford

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Making MySQL AI-Ready: How MyVector and ProxySQL Work Together
February 11, 2026 Recap Tech

Making MySQL AI-Ready: How MyVector and ProxySQL Work Together

As AI workloads become standard in modern applications, engineering teams face a familiar dilemma: MySQL is already the system of record, but vector search typically requires bolting on a separate database. MyVector and ProxySQL solve this without fragmenting your data stack.

#myvector #genai #rag #mysql

by Ronald Bradford

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Bringing GenAI to Every MySQL Instance: ProxySQL v4.0
February 8, 2026 Recap Tech

Bringing GenAI to Every MySQL Instance: ProxySQL v4.0

ProxySQL v4.0 adds a transparent AI layer at the proxy — RAG pipelines, NL2SQL, and an MCP server for AI agents — without touching your database or application code.

#genai #mcp #mysql #proxysql #rag

by Ronald Bradford

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Welcome Ronald Bradford to ProxySQL as Chief Technology Officer
January 30, 2026 Recruiting

Welcome Ronald Bradford to ProxySQL as Chief Technology Officer

We are thrilled to welcome Ronald Bradford to ProxySQL's executive team as our Chief Technology Officer, bringing extensive expertise in modern cloud-native architectures, MySQL and PostgreSQL database technologies, and vector search.

#hiring #meet-the-team #mysql #postgresql

by Rene Cannao

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We are hiring at ProxySQL!
January 27, 2026 Recruiting

We are hiring at ProxySQL!

ProxySQL is a high-performance, highly-available protocol-aware proxy for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and wire-compatible products including RDS, RDS Aurora, Percona Ser

#hiring #opensource-careers

by Rene Cannao

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January 20, 2026 Release

ProxySQL 3.0.5: Security hardening, protocol fixes, and smoother operations

We’re excited to announce ProxySQL 3.0.5, our first release of 2026. As always, thank you to everyone who tested, reported issues, sent patches, and shar

#release #proxysql #postgresql #mysql

by Rene Cannao

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