>>>>>However, a full "local" connection (without "localhost" in front of
>
> it)
>
>>>>>will block other threads (on SuperServer). On classic, it's fine.
>>>>
>>>>Can you be more specific ? Which operations are blocked ? Can you send
>>>
>>>example ?
>>>
>>>As far as I know, a local (IPC?) connection will block other
>>>networked connections when doing its stuff.
>>
>>So, can you send some example or describe which operations are blocked ?
>>
>>I just did simple test - I connected to DB using local protocol
>>and started 5 minutes long query. During that time I connected
>>from another application using local protocol (connecion was instant),
>>and then run simpler query, which returned result nearly immediately.
>>Then I tried networked connection and did the same test,
>>the connect and query were fast again (while the first application/query
>>still running). So, what should I do to see this "blocking threads
>>with local connection on superserver" problem ?
>
>
> Well, just that :-)
>
> Apparently, this problem either doesn't exist anymore, doesn't manifest
> itself as problematic anymore or my recall of theproblem has gone wild
> and it doesn't exist.

Perhaps you are talking about the InterBase 7.x client library which
serialize the database access of multiple threads, when using a "true"
local access?


Regards,
Thomas