Re: Session interface

"Brian Olsen (Mailing Lists)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.skunkweb
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 22:33, Jacob Smullyan wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:49:38PM -0500, Brian Olsen (Mailing Lists) wrote:
> > Does anyone here use the database interface for sessions? (Like MySQL,
> > PostgreSQL.) If so, what's the benefit? SkunkWeb can now store stuff
> > through AE cache as well as the filesystem, which seems sufficient for
> > simple data like that stored in a session. 
> 
> I don't use it, but I think the only point of using a relational
> database for this is to share sessions between machines in a
> convenient manner, in case you want to use sessions in a load
> balancing setup without worrying about persistent connections.  That's
> the only reason those implementations exist.

Persistent connections - like NFS-type shares?

Brian



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