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20.2.5 General database connection and disconnection

Once the database type has been initialized a connection can be established by calling connect with an appropriate connection-spec . A call to connect sets *default-database* to the database instance which represents the connection. All the other database functions described take a :database argument that can be either a database or a database name, and which defaults to the value of *default-database* .

Database connections can be named by passing the :name argument to connect , allowing you to have more than one connection to a given database. If this is omitted, then a unique database name is constructed from connection-spec and a counter. Connection names are compared with equalp .

To find all the database connection instances, call the function connected-databases . To retrieve the name for a connection instance, call database-name , and to find a connection instance with a given name use find-database . To print status information about the existing connections, call status .

To close a connection to a database, use disconnect .

To reestablish a connection to a database, use reconnect .

20.2.5.1 Connection example


LispWorks User Guide - 11 Mar 2008

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