[Python] When using mysql.connector.aio how do we enable connection pooling (assuming it is...

I am trying to port my old mysql connector code to use the asyncio libraries provided by MySQL. When I tried to run it, it said it didn't recognize the pool_name and pool_size.

It didn't explicitly state in the documentation that pooling is not supported. AIOMysql does support pooling.

But I was also thinking, if I am running on a single thread, why would I need connection pooling? Maybe that's why it isn't explicitly supported by the MySQL AIO drivers?

There's a forum question but doesn't really address whether connection pooling is needed or not.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/66222924/242042 seems to indicate that connection pooling isn't worth it, but it could be specific to AIOMysql.

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