> I was thinking that we would have a pool of ready servers _per_database_.
> That is, we would be able to configure say 8 servers in a particular DB, and
> say 4 in another DB etc. These servers could run most of the way through
> initialization (open catalogs, read in syscache etc). Then they would wait
> until a connection for the desired DB was handed to them by the postmaster.
>
OK, but how do you invalidate the catalog items that have changed from
the startup to the time it gets the client connection?
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