Hello! I am currently working on an implementation of an Ecto Adapter for XTDB v2.x . 2.x is not a production-ready version, but I just wanted to try to make this project as a way to learn more about Elixir and XTDB as well. So first of course I would need to create a DB driver for Elixir. XTDB has…

There’s “keepalive” in HTTP/1.1 that lets a connection be used for multiple sequential requests. [image] Keep-Alive header - HTTP | MDN The HTTP Keep-Alive request and response header allows the sender to hint how a connection may be used in terms of a timeout and a maximum amount of re…

:wave: @zackattackz I implemented an HTTP driver for ClickHouse and DBConnection was very useful. You can GET /status for handle_ping, it would probably be enough to keep the connection alive. In addition to pooling and keeping connections alive, DBConnection provides a way to make them re-co…

This is awesome, thank you!! I was looking into using Mint as well, so this is a huge help :smiley:

Looking more into this it seems that HTTP 1.1 keeps connections alive by default, so pinging some known endpoint periodically, like @ruslandoga does in their Clickhouse driver, should be enough to keep the connection alive.

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zackattackz June 11, 2024, 12:51pm 4

Interesting, I will need to see if it is supported. Thank you!