Second example at
https://www.joyent.com/developers/node/design/errors
in the section "(Not) handling programmer errors"
A database (or other) connection may be leaked, reducing the number of future requests you can handle in parallel. This can get so bad that you're left with just a few connections, and you end up handling requests in series instead of concurrently.
Ok, so I have code that opens a connection, runs a query, then processes the results.