How to speed up connection pool creation

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Hello!

I have a discord bot which creates a connection pool at startup and maintains it while running.

When diagnosing slow startup issues, I've found that creating the connection pool (with 3 connections) is the slowest part, taking around 4 seconds. I figure there's going to be some delay here no matter what, and I'm guessing part of it is a problem connecting to the database, but I'm trying to see if there's any way I can speed this creation up.

Any advice on how I can improve the initial creation time, or do I just have to give up those 4 seconds? 😢