Manan Gupta
Founding Engineer Multigres at Supabase
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Manan Gupta has presented the following presentations
Making pg_regress the Bar: Getting a Connection Pooler to 100% on PostgreSQL's Own Test Suite
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PG Down Under 2026
presented by Manan Gupta
A connection pooler is a lie you tell your application. The client thinks it has a PostgreSQL backend all to itself; in reality it is being multiplexed onto a shared pool. Every Postgres behaviour that quietly depends on which backend you are on is a chance for that lie to leak: GUCs, prepared statements, temp tables, advisory locks, LISTEN/NOTIFY, query cancellation, COPY, and the exte...