[mod_python] connection pool (OT)

David Fraser davidf at sjsoft.com
Thu Dec 15 03:13:07 EST 2005


Hi Nicolas

I saw this too but it seems incredibly sparing in terms of the API...
How do you get it to run the actual SQL commands?

David

Nicolas Lehuen wrote:
> Note that Apache 2.2  features a database API with connection pooling
> capabilities. This is all very brand new and bug-prone, but we could
> imagine building a DBAPI wrapper around this API, thus making it
> possible to rely on Apache-level pooling mechanisms. See :
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.1/mod/mod_dbd.html
>
> Anyway, this is not a solution in the short term.
>
> Regards,
> Nicolas
>
> 2005/12/14, Graham Dumpleton <grahamd at dscpl.com.au>:
>   
>> On 15/12/2005, at 12:32 AM, Mike Looijmans wrote:
>>
>>     
>>>> I've looked at connection pool code for a persistent database
>>>> connection.   I don't know where to create the connection pool.
>>>> If in the handler code (I'm using publisher), wouldn't a new
>>>> pool be created each time the handler is called?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> You'll get a new pool for each process (not for each thread)
>>>       
>> Technically speaking, not necessarily. :-)
>>
>> There will actually be one per Python interpreter instance which uses
>> that
>> handler module. Thus if you were supporting two virtual hosts and
>> both used
>> the same handler module there would be one for each virtual host in each
>> process. This even presumes the pool was created at global scope within
>> the handler module. If it was created within the handler function
>> itself, then
>> there could be one per request.
>>
>> If pool was created at global scope within the handler module and module
>> reloading is used, then over time you could end up with multiple
>> pools with
>> older ones potentially becoming inaccessible resources with a
>> resource leak
>> resulting. Resource pools should ideally be created in modules which are
>> not the subject of mod_python module reloading.
>>
>> All this was what the referenced article and old mailing list posts
>> help to
>> describe.
>>
>> Graham
>>
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