I assumed he was planning to use db...close() outside web2py in some
python script.

In the web2py context you should not close the db. Not because you
lose auth_user since the connection will be reopened at the next
request, but because of speed issues (the connection has to be re-
established) and other issues with transactions.

Massimo

On Feb 5, 1:55 am, mart <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't get it... doesn't this make you logged out because you
> wouldn't have auth_user anymore? then what do you do?
>
> But on the other hand could we use this to hop from one db to another
> (thinking through script) ?
>
> Sorry for asking ;)
>
> Mart
>
> On Feb 4, 12:57 pm, Massimo Di Pierro <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> > db._adapter.connection.close()
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> > On Feb 4, 10:24 am, vortex <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > How do I explicitly close a database connection?

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