Thanks - fine for this currently low-volume site now but we definitely want to take advantage of this feature for scalability (the site may suddenly start getting a lot of traffic): http://www.web2py.com/book/default/chapter/06#Connection-Pooling
Also see: http://www.web2py.com/book/default/chapter/06#Connection-Failures The problem is known, but it seems web2py's retry mechanism isn't working any more... F
