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by reactordev 332 days ago
Thread pooling for databases, whether network based, or disk based, is common. A lot of times it will be baked into your client, so the fact that you think it’s crazy means you’ve only dealt with clients that did this for you.

For really large data sets, you can query and wait a few minutes before getting a result. Do you really want to await that?