> And this is actually what you want from a performance point of view: Reduce the number of roundtrips and keep your transactions as short as possible. Uhm, ob

> And this is actually what you want from a performance point of view: Reduce the number of roundtrips and keep your transactions as short as possible. Uhm, obviously. But it turns out there's other constraints too. Like whether optimizing for that to a significant degree in each application is worthwhile and/or realistically being done. And latency is a thing either way. It's extremely rare to not have briefly idle connections in OLTP context, even more so if the app code isn't heavily optimized for it (but even if).