Fairly common practice for Postgres setups is to sit pgbouncer (https://www.pgbouncer.org/ https://www.pgbouncer.org/) between your app process and your Postgre

Fairly common practice for Postgres setups is to sit pgbouncer (https://www.pgbouncer.org/ https://www.pgbouncer.org/) between your app process and your Postgres instance. Connection setup/tear-down is cheap in MySQL but expensive in Postgres.