I was addressing OP's impression that psycopg2 was slow "in any case" and that it cannot be used in non-blocking fashion. > psycopg2 is slow in any case due to

I was addressing OP's impression that psycopg2 was slow "in any case" and that it cannot be used in non-blocking fashion. > psycopg2 is slow in any case due to the blocking nature of the network calls.