> And... do you do that with the default configuration?

Yes. Internal apps/LoB apps for a large company might have, at most 5k users. PostgreSQL seems to manage it fine, none of my metrics are showing high latencies even when all employees log on in the morning during the same 30m period.

I'm definitely getting the wrong kind of clients.

Kudos to you sir. Sincerely, I'm not hating, I'm actually jealous of the environment being that mellow.