[Interest] Long running application with database connection

[Marc Schmitzer]

On 10/09/2013 04:46 PM, S R wrote:
> 
> In a similar situation, if I recall correctly, we elected to open the
> database connection each time we needed it.  Through testing we found
> that connection pooling in the the underlying infrastructure (windows,
> using oracle and ms sqlserver) worked well.  The reconnection cost was
> usually trivial compared with the actual query especially if the
> connection was recently used; the resulting code was simpler/cleaner;
> and the approach seemed robust to lots of other reasons (not just idle
> time) that the connection might drop.  I do recall that it was hard to
> test well.

I considered that as well, but I see the problem that some subroutine
that interacts with the database cannot know whether something higher up
the call stack is also, in which case closing the connection would leave
the higher stack frame with an invalid connection.

Of course you could do something more involved like "only close the
connection if you opened it", but I'd rather avoid fixing up every
single database access.

I still don't know whether keeping the connection open for a long time
is somehow a bad idea. But on the other hand, the mysqld wait_timeout
can be configured to up to a year, so it can't be that bad.


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Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best regards

Marc Schmitzer

SW-Entwicklung ESWL / ESWT
Software development ESWL / ESWT

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