Nick Kew wrote: > > > > > * mod_dbd is new but is going to be Big and Important :-) And it's > > > descended from a family of modules that have been in production > > > for a couple of years. > > > > Question; does this require the apr-util features in 1.3? > > 1.2 or higher. > > I should add a little more about it. It is descended from a family of > connection pooling modules built around apr_reslist. I've been using > it two years myself, and some *very* big household name sites have been > using it for some time. What is new is the apr_dbd/mod_dbd split, > which was arrived at by discussion here a little under a year ago. > So, like proxy, cache, etc, it's really a refactoring of existing stuff. > > Oh, and let me repeat: mod_dbd offers the biggest advance in applications > development since mod_perl gave us the beginnings of LAMP ten years ago! > Remember the late 1980s, when every PC application came on a huge > stack of floppies, comprising *mostly* just a bunch of drivers for hundreds > of different printers? Database handling in Apache 1.x and 2.0 looks like > that: every module or application that wants a database has to reinvent > that wheel - and then reinvent connection pooling on top of it if it wants > more scalability! >
Are you running for office? :) -- ======================================================================= Jim Jagielski [|] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [|] http://www.jaguNET.com/ "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball."
