Oracle has added a feature where once you retrieve a connection from the
pool, you specify the userid and password at that time.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chad Z. Hower [mailto:chad-jm@...]
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 3:35 PM
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [firebird-support] Connection overhead


:: Not a lot with a shared server. Opinions vary, but mine is

What is a shared server?

:: that we should reduce the cost of connections and eliminate
:: connection pooling - for one thing, certain standard
:: features (e.g. temporary
:: tables) depend on clean definitions of SQL-sessions and
:: connection pooling really muddies the water.

I agree. :) Pooling also creates lax security and forces ALL security
into
the application, thus removing it from the DB.





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