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+import { drizzle } from 'drizzle-orm/node-postgres';
+import { Pool } from 'pg';
+import * as schema from './schema';
+
+// Create a singleton pool
+let pool: Pool | null = null;
+
+export function getPool(): Pool {
+  if (!pool) {
+    const connectionString = process.env.DATABASE_URL || 'postgresql://vixtix:vixtix_secret@localhost:5433/vixtix';
+    pool = new Pool({
+      connectionString,
+      max: 20,
+      idleTimeoutMillis: 30000,
+      connectionTimeoutMillis: 2000,
+    });
+  }
+  return pool;
+}
+
+export function getDb() {
+  return drizzle(getPool(), { schema });
+}
+
+// Graceful shutdown
+process.on('SIGINT', () => {
+  if (pool) pool.end();
+  process.exit(0);
+});