Olivier,
your points are well taken.

O> Ahhh performance. Sure there is a difference. But if the app can refrain
O> from doing 10K requests a minute by relying more on the db server, the
O> difference vanishes (mostly).

That particular application is a logger that collects small packets
of information from a huge number of clients and writes them to a
database for further off-line processing. I could have used a number
of text files but I thought fbembed was more robust. ;-)
The only alternative I know for doing that would be to queue the
requests and have a separate thread/process send them to the database.
That was what I was about to set up when the application was still
supposed to work with Oracle, then fbembed came out and enlightened me.
;-)

O> Also this will be very different with FB 2.

In what respect?

Ciao
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