Hacker News Reader

It was improved in 14 but may not eliminate the need for pgbouncer depending on the use case.

https://pganalyze.com/blog/postgres-14-performance-monitorin...

There is still value in constraining the maximum number of concurrent queries. That’s PgBouncers main task.

It is less necessary but it could still be worth running it since there is still a bit if overhead plus PgBouncer can be used to when doing failovers.