diff --git a/cf/src/index.js b/cf/src/index.js
index 3ffb7e65..0d1bcea1 100644
--- a/cf/src/index.js
+++ b/cf/src/index.js
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ function parseOptions(a, b) {
 
   const ints = ['idle_timeout', 'connect_timeout', 'max_lifetime', 'max_pipeline', 'backoff', 'keep_alive']
   const defaults = {
-    max             : 10,
+    max             : 3,
     ssl             : false,
     idle_timeout    : null,
     connect_timeout : 30,
diff --git a/transpile.cf.js b/transpile.cf.js
index bbe4c500..ea7f6bbd 100644
--- a/transpile.cf.js
+++ b/transpile.cf.js
@@ -36,4 +36,5 @@ function transpile(x) {
     .replace('import fs from \'fs\'', 'import { fs } from \'../polyfills.js\'')
     .replace('import { performance } from \'perf_hooks\'', 'import { performance } from \'../polyfills.js\'')
     .replace(/ from '([a-z_]+)'/g, ' from \'node:$1\'')
+    .replace(/(\s*max\s*:\s*)10+/, '$13') // https://github.com/porsager/postgres/issues/1023
 }