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1. If you have a server, it’s trivial to setup a connection pool. For example, most Postres clients like Knex or Prisma sets a connection pool for you on your server. There’s no need to setup an external connection pool. It’s good that Supabase does it for you but most managed Postres databases don’t.

In fact, it's trivial to setup many things on a server that you simply can't on a serverless function. For example, a simple cron job or a simple persistent queue or websockets. You have to use 3rd party services for these simple tasks that you could have done on your server.

2. That has nothing to do with serverless or servers.