# Nginx for Postgres servers **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [July 14, 2015, 10:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-for-postgres-servers/242679 "2015-07-14T22:48:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Detlef\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/58f4c7/32.png) [@Detlef\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Detlef_R)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 10:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-for-postgres-servers/242679/1 "2015-07-14T22:48:41Z")
I know nginx is designed to handle web and mail servers. Does it make sense to use to handle multiple (in our case 2) PostgreSQL database servers? Tom Ekberg Senior Computer Specialist, Lab Medicine University of Washington Medical Center 1959 NE Pacific St, MS 357110 Seattle WA 98195 work: (206) 598-8544 email: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Ekberg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/919ad9/32.png) [@Tom\_Ekberg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tom_Ekberg)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-for-postgres-servers/242679/2 "2015-07-14T23:52:56Z")
You mean something like: [GitHub - FRiCKLE/ngx\_postgres: upstream module that allows nginx to communicate directly with PostgreSQL database.](https://github.com/FRiCKLE/ngx_postgres) ? ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Ekberg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/919ad9/32.png) [@Tom\_Ekberg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tom_Ekberg)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 1:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-for-postgres-servers/242679/3 "2015-07-15T01:54:27Z")
Hello Tom, If you want to proxy PostgreSQL connections with nginx, you can use the stream (tcp) proxy for this. Obviously, it will not keep a persistent connection to the database server, but will open a new connection for each client. > **[Module ngx\_stream\_core\_module](http://nginx.org/en/docs/stream/ngx_stream_core_module.html)** > email: [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > > * * * > > nginx mailing list > [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > [mailman.nginx.org archive](http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx) – Roman A.