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[Chad La Joie <>]

The default behavior marks it dead permanently, never to retry again.

On 5/26/10 1:25 PM, Scott Cantor wrote:
> > - Improve the relational database connector's connection pooling, in
> > particular removing the behavior where a database is marked as dead.
> > However, I'll probably move away from the current pooling library
> > altogether because it seems to be a dead project and I don't feel
> > comfortable relying on those.
>
> When you say removing the behavior, do you mean it's currently marking
> things dead "permanently", or that it's flagging them for a period of time
> and then reactivating them? The former I agree is bad, but the latter I have
> found to be fairly important when dealing with unreliable networks or
> databases that hang the IdP when they're behaving badly.
>
> (I can't recall if that behavior in 1.3 was from the code or from the
> commons pooling library. I think perhaps it was the IdP code itself.)
>
> -- Scott

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