On Jul 28, 2007, at 10:52 AM, michael wrote:
> > > Sorry if this is naive.. but.. if the data is 'readonly' and can not > be flushed, why keep the very valuable thread, session, and db > connection open? Why not just load data into a global variable and be > done with it? > a session is not at all valuable. its an object with a couple of dictionaries inside of it. if not bound directly to a connection and not within a transaction, it references no database resources. the idea here is that the session would be used as a sort of "global" variable. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---