Re: Pooled Connections (was Connections with Tomcat 3.2.4 and PostgreSQL 7.1.3)

JBoss docs mentions that the 7.x driver jdbc7.0-1.2.jar is causing troubles
with :
<quote>
Extreme Java "long" values will cause SQLExceptions and may corrupt the
driver so that further actions will fail.
</quote>

A bit further they mention :
<quote>
You must include a User name and password. They can be bogus if your
PostgreSQL in to trust the machine you are coming from, but you cannot leave
them out.
</quote>

Rgds,

THomas,

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Fields" <dfields-postgres(at)pexicom(dot)com>
To: <Dave(at)micro-automation(dot)net>
Cc: "'Justin Clift'" <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>; <tsmets(at)brutele(dot)be>; "'pgsql
jdbc'" <pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>; <hyellina(at)iprimus(dot)com(dot)au>
Sent: 06 March, 2002 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [JDBC] Pooled Connections (was Connections with Tomcat 3.2.4
and PostgreSQL 7.1.3)

> At 07:30 AM 3/6/2002, Dave Cramer wrote:
> >Pooled connections aren't rocket science. There are quite a few freely
> >available, poolman for one.
>
> For what it's worth, I never got Poolman 2.0.4 to work with the JDBC 7.2
> drivers; occasionally and for no reason it would give me spurious errors
on
> perfectly good SQL. I posted about it a week or two ago on this list. I
> received no replies, and furthermore got no replies from the author(s) and
> found little information about it on the net.
>
> I now use Protomatter (protomatter.sourceforge.net) and have had very good
> success with it. It's a more simple implementation, hence, probably faster
> and/or more bug free, and the author has been very talkative and has
> implemented some enhancements/repairs that I have suggested/provided.
>
> Also to back up what Dave said - you never know when and/or even if the GC
> is going to collect your connections, so always close them in a finally
> block. The beauty of GC is that it's non-deterministic and allows you to
be
> sloppy. The horror of GC is that it's non-deterministic and allows you to
> be sloppy.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Doug
>
>