Retaining execution plans between connections?

Hi there,

I am running a website where each page connects to the DB to retrieve and
write information. Each page load uses a separate connection (rather than
just sharing one as is the common case) because I use a lot of transactions.

I am looking to speed up performance, and since each page executes a static
set of queries where only the parameters change, I was hoping to take
advantage of stored procedures since I read that PostgreSQL's caches the
execution plans used inside stored procedures.

However, the documentation states that this execution plan caching is done
on a per-connection basis. If each page uses a separate connection, I can
get no performance benefit between pages.

In other words, there's no benefit to me in putting a one-shot query that is
basically the same for every page (e.g. "SELECT * FROM users WHERE
user_name='<username>'") inside a stored proc, since the generated execution
plan will be thrown away once the connection is dropped.

Has anyone found a way around this limitation? As I said, I can't share the
DB connection between pages (unless someone knows of a way to do this and
still retain a level of separation between pages that use the same DB
connection).

Many thanks,

James