This is great - thanks for diving in here! Really appreciate the community attention on the parts of the library my venture doesn't use on a day to day basis. I need to make a note to myself to eventually convert this function to async as doing anything with *Sync in the name is probably not as good long term as using the async version....though connections to postgres are already rather slow (due to the protocol and handshake itself) and not extremely common (and the previous code was blocking) so I'm not immediately highly concerned.