[Zope-DB] opening and closing a database connection from a dtml-method

[Matthew T. Kromer]

Thomas_Janke@prisma-edv.de wrote:

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>This is actually a lot trickier than you might think with Zope.  The
>reason is that Zope's RDBMS support does not have an "administrativly
>closed" state on connections -- each time a connection is  needed, it
>will be opened if it is not already open.  So, if you acquire a
>connection object (e.g. by name) and replace its connection string with
>an invalid one, you'll "close" the connection -- but that's not really
>what you want, I dont think.
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>How exactly do I replace a connections connection string?
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>Yours
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Well, it COULD be as simple as grabbing the connection object and 
changing its connection_string attribute, but that is going to vary by 
DA as to what it's called -- i.e. there is  no API for doing this.

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