neon-postgres

Expert patterns for Neon serverless Postgres, branching, connection pooling, and Prisma/Drizzle integration Use when: neon database, serverless postgres, database branching, neon postgres, postgres serverless.

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Neon Postgres

Patterns

Prisma with Neon Connection

Configure Prisma for Neon with connection pooling.

Use two connection strings:

  • DATABASE_URL: Pooled connection for Prisma Client

  • DIRECT_URL: Direct connection for Prisma Migrate
  • The pooled connection uses PgBouncer for up to 10K connections.
    Direct connection required for migrations (DDL operations).


    Drizzle with Neon Serverless Driver

    Use Drizzle ORM with Neon's serverless HTTP driver for
    edge/serverless environments.

    Two driver options:

  • neon-http: Single queries over HTTP (fastest for one-off queries)

  • neon-serverless: WebSocket for transactions and sessions

  • Connection Pooling with PgBouncer

    Neon provides built-in connection pooling via PgBouncer.

    Key limits:

  • Up to 10,000 concurrent connections to pooler

  • Connections still consume underlying Postgres connections

  • 7 connections reserved for Neon superuser
  • Use pooled endpoint for application, direct for migrations.


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