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by pweissbrod 1369 days ago
Perhaps the overhead of chatty queries is diminished in this special use case.

But it doesn't change the fact that standalone database server processes are designed to support specific queries at lower frequencies. This is one of the main points of The SQL language is to load precisely the data that is needed in a single statement.

Relying on this is a design pattern would only scale in specific use cases and would hit hard walls in changing scenarios