So select now() is fine. Thanks.
markt-2 wrote: > > MartinOShea wrote: >> Thanks for the reply. >> >> Setting testOnBorrow to true is something I'll try but according to: >> >> http://commons.apache.org/dbcp/configuration.html >> >> If testOnBorrow is set to true, the validation query must be set to a >> 'non-null string'. Presumably this means that the query must always >> return a >> value such as validationQuery = "select now()" always returning the date >> / >> time? > > It just means that testOnBorrow does nothing if validationQuery is set to > "". > For mysql "select 1" is sufficient and saves a call to now(). The Oracle > equivalent would be "select 1 from dual" > > I just checked the dbcp source code and the criteria for the validation > query is > that it must return at least 1 row with no exceptions being thrown. > > Mark > > >> >> validationQuery = "select now()" >> >> markt-2 wrote: >>> MartinOShea wrote: >>>> But I think what is >>>> happening after eight hours of inactivity, is that the system is trying >>>> to >>>> reuse a connection pool object that MySQL has closed down after its >>>> default >>>> eight hour period. >>> Sounds likely. >>> >>>> testOnBorrow = "false" >>> Try setting this to true. >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >>> >>> >>> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Tomcat-6.X-and-MySQL-connection-pooling-issue-tp25677820p25680199.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org