Re: [DataMapper] Ability to close and open database connections in Datamapper?

2010-07-20 Thread Jordan Ritter
Sounds like this is more a DataObjects question than a DataMapper question. Still, have you thought about mysqlproxy (or something similar) as an intermediate connect / load-balancing point? Haven't ever explored using it that way, but generally speaking any proxy that has a mysql-specific not

[DataMapper] Ability to close and open database connections in Datamapper?

2010-07-20 Thread Jonathan Badger
I am writing a bioinformatics tool that uses a database (MySQL) to store and fetch data as needed. This tool is generally run on a distributed system with over a thousand nodes, all or some of which may be used by my tool depending on who else is using the system. The problem is that we are not al