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Miranda Limonczenko bc102876bb docs: apply the rest of the connecting to Postgres feedback (#49928)
Closes FDBKIN-31335
Closes FDBKIN-13040
Closes FDBKIN-8653
Closes FDBKIN-19912
Closes DOCS-740

## I have read the
[CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
file.

YES

## What kind of change does this PR introduce?

Docs update. While we are revising this document, this PR gathers docs
feedback via AI magic and applies that feedback.

## What is the current behavior?

These findings stand on feedback intake rather than on the baseline.
Worth doing, and the eval won't show a score change for any of them.

- **Nothing explains the pooler host.** #49868 switched the strings to
`[POOLER-HOST]`, but the page never says why you can't compose the host,
and agents that recite `aws-0` get `Tenant or user not found`.
agent-skills#92.
- **The page gives the instruction to turn prepared statements off, but
not the flag.** It also links the GitHub discussion rather than the
troubleshooting entry that mirrors it. FDBKIN-8248, FDBKIN-7883.
- **SSL goes undiscussed.** Four of six eval runs set `ssl: 'require'`
unprompted.
- **The pooled username format only appears inside example strings**,
never as a rule. DOCS-740, FDBKIN-19912.
- **Third-party tools have no answer.** Session mode is the right one,
and the decision table had no row for a BI client or database GUI at
all. FDBKIN-8653.
- **Only one of transaction mode's three limitations is documented.**
FDBKIN-13040 names prepared statements, cursors, and session-level
settings. The page covered prepared statements.

## What is the new behavior?

- Tell the reader to copy the host, port, and username rather than
typing the placeholders, and explain the pooler cluster index next to
the reference table. The placeholders themselves changed in #49868.
- State the username rule: direct connections and the dedicated pooler
use `postgres`, shared pooler connections use `postgres.<project-ref>`.
- Add a per-driver prepared statements table for Postgres.js, Drizzle,
Prisma, asyncpg, and JDBC, and link [Disabling prepared
statements](https://supabase.com/docs/guides/troubleshooting/disabling-prepared-statements-qL8lEL)
for the rest. Add JDBC's `prepareThreshold=0` to that entry too, so the
two pages agree.
- Document SSL: `require` rather than the `prefer` default, which falls
back to plaintext.
- Link the `CONNECT_TIMEOUT` entry for stale sockets in frozen
serverless runtimes.
- Add a decision table row for a third-party tool, and point at
Quickstarts for named tools.
- Cover all three transaction mode limitations. Cursors work inside a
single transaction only, and session-level state is lost between
transactions: `set` and `reset`, session-level advisory locks, `listen`
and `notify`, and temporary tables. Renamed the section from "Prepared
statements", since it now covers the cause rather than one symptom.
- Promote Configure your client to an H2 and fold the SSL certificate
section into it. The table of contents only renders H2 and H3, so the
client settings were invisible as H4s.


## Manual testing

1. Open [Connect to your
database](https://docs-git-docs-connecting-to-postgres-technical-supabase.vercel.app/docs/guides/database/connecting-to-postgres)
on the deploy preview.
2. Read the Get your connection string lead-in. It tells you to copy the
host, port, and username rather than typing the placeholders.
3. Check the table of contents. Configure your client is an H2 with
Application-side pool size, Prepared statements, SSL, and Stale
connections under it.
4. Follow the prepared statements link. It lands on the in-docs
troubleshooting entry, not GitHub.
5. Open the [endpoint
reference](https://docs-git-docs-connecting-to-postgres-technical-supabase.vercel.app/docs/guides/database/connecting-to-postgres#endpoints-and-ip-versions).
The table shows `aws-[INDEX]-[REGION]`, and the prose below explains the
index and the username rule.
6. Read the decision table. It has a row for a third-party BI client or
database GUI, pointing at session mode.
7. Read [Transaction mode
limitations](https://docs-git-docs-connecting-to-postgres-technical-supabase.vercel.app/docs/guides/database/connecting-to-postgres#transaction-mode-limitations).
It covers prepared statements, cursors, and session-level state.



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## Summary by CodeRabbit

## Documentation

- Expanded the Postgres connection guide with clearer client
configuration guidance, including pool sizing, SSL, stale connections,
and transaction mode limitations.
- Added recommendations for BI tools and database GUIs using the shared
pooler.
- Clarified connection strings, pooler hosts, usernames, ports, and IP
version behavior.
- Updated serverless driver guidance for transaction mode configuration.
- Added JDBC troubleshooting instructions for disabling prepared
statements with `prepareThreshold=0`.
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