You will either need to go ahead and rely on the SchemaCacheDir capabilities
or customize your IBO code so that it will work as you require.

Jason Wharton

> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com [mailto:IBObjects@yahoogroups.com]On
> Behalf Of dmarmur2002
> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 6:01 AM
> To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [IBO] Threads sharing SchemaCache info?
>
>
> Looking at the thread example each thread would read metadata from the
> database into the SchemaCache member of its TIB_Connection. In my
> scenario this is read-only data and I was thinking of a way to
> centralize it.
>
> I make a connection to a database at application startup, read some
> info and disconnect. This constitutes "startup phase". After this,
> when a new thread (containing session, connection and lots of queries)
> is created I would like that connection to re-use information from the
> startup IB_Connection (main thread).
>
> I hacked a TIB_SchemaCache.Assign(source: TIB_SchemaCache) function
> but when the "base connection" disconnects it's data is invalidated,
> by whereafter, (in my scenario), this assignment is to done.
>
> I would like not to use the SchemaCacheDir functions because I would
> like metadata to be refreshed completely at application startup
> (server restart). And, also, how would thread number tree react if
> thread number two writes to the directory? I don't think I can make
> such writes thread safe?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> /Dany