It does. You can currently do this with an external Django DB Pool module, for some numbers see: http://mixedbit.org/blog/2013/02/06/django_db_pool_on_heroku...
I also can't wait to have such mode fully supported by the core product.
I also can't wait to have such mode fully supported by the core product.
Absolutely. My expectation is that this alone should dramatically increase app response times for any reasonably DB-dependant application.