In response to John Gage :
> In other words, there are 4,500 unique users accessing the website,
> each uniquely identified via http authentication, but only ONE
> postgres user who they all share to access the database, which implies
> that a single, unique postgres user will be opening and closing
> connections to the database perhaps a thousand times a minute.
>
> Does this work?
>
> If it doesn't, are there any suggestions?
I think you should consider a connection pooler like pgbouncer.
Regards, Andreas
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