Timescale has announced the availability of connection pooling on its platform, utilizing PgBouncer to address the longstanding issue of scaling database connections in PostgreSQL. This connection pooling service, hosted on dedicated infrastructure, allows users to improve database performance, especially in environments with numerous short-lived connections, such as serverless applications or those using AWS Lambda. The connection pooler offers two types of pools—session and transaction—to enhance throughput and performance while preserving resources. By maintaining persistent connections and managing the opening and closing of connections efficiently, PgBouncer reduces the overhead that PostgreSQL typically encounters with multiple concurrent connections. Timescale chose PgBouncer for its proven reliability and resource efficiency, while maintaining the flexibility to switch to other poolers like pgCat if needed. Additionally, Timescale provides users with access to PgBouncer's monitoring commands to ensure proper configuration and performance. This new feature is part of a series of launches during Timescale's Cloud Week, including live migrations, an enterprise tier, and enhanced database monitoring.