On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Colin Putney wrote:

> Another thing you might try is switching clients. Diego's ODBC package
> works quite well. It makes deployment more difficult though, and might
> require some reworking of your application, so I'd only do that as a
> last resort.

Using ODBC (or any external database lib) also means that the entire VM
will block during a query - probably not what you want for a heavily
loaded application.