> MySQL's ability to handle many thousands of idle connections without breaking a sweat actually solves this problem, and does so in a very convenient way, part

> MySQL's ability to handle many thousands of idle connections without breaking a sweat actually solves this problem, and does so in a very convenient way, particularly in a micro-services architecture, and I really wish Postgres supported it. There's several PG developers aware of this, and hope to work on this. Getting the resources to work on it isn't trivial, but looks like it might happen. Obviously that's not going to help you short term...