>Yes, if you wait long enough, all connections will be eventually closed
>(until the minPoolSize is reached).
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>>If so, then at some point in the future all of the
>>metadata would be refreshed and a restart would not be necessary?
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>Yes, but that does not solve the issue if the connections are actively used.
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Is there any merit to periodically physically closing connections?
Other connection pools I have worked with would have a setting that
would set the maximum time a physical connection can be open.

Steve