Many thanks. Not the most desirable situation but at least it's a clear answer.

My current situation is that I'm using Delphi on the clients, this has
data-aware components that adopt undefined (or at the very least inconvenient
:-) states when no longer connected to the underlying database. However I have
aother reasons to want to discard these, so this becomes just one more factor to
consider in the redesign.

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> > If a Win-32 system connects via ODBC to pgpool, does the system
> > running pgpool have to be permanently running or can it be rebooted
> > without deranging open but quiescent connections?
>
> No, your application will have to be able to reconnect if the connection
> is lost by reason of the "server" disappearing or having been moved.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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