[Zope-DB] Zope database connectivity

[Maciej Wisniowski]

>Not strictly speaking in ZODB:
>
>   The "_v_" use for database connections is dangerous (and if you
>   want buggy).
>
>   It can lead to nasty, apparently non-deterministic effects.
>   You may lose your database connection mid transaction
>   and part of what you think is a transaction (i.e. atomical) can be lost.
>
>   There are too ways to fix this problem: do not use "_v_" attributes
>   to maintain the database connection or extend the ZODB to
>   allow more control over the lifetime of "_v_" attributes.
>
Thanks again for explanations. Seems that I'll change my DA's
(DCOracle2 and ZCxOracleDA) to use connection pool like psycopg
does. After quick look at their (psycopg) solution I think it is really good
and solves (or may solve) few other issues too - like closing
all connections with 'Close connection' button (useless with
_v_ implementation). Implementing reconnect of broken connection
i.e. when database was restarted shouldn't be too difficult too.

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Maciej Wisniowski