Disconnect and later reconnect a dm object from a remote database

[ablack3]

Would it be possible to disconnect and later reconnect a dm object to/from a remote database?

I'd like to pass a disconnected dm object into a function, have it open a new connection and perform some operations with the database, and then close the connection before exiting. One potential reason might be that on some database systems temporary tables are scoped to the connection which I want to keep within a function scope.

[krlmlr]

Thanks for raising this.

Have you seen dm_paste()? This prints the code that defines a dm.

There are a few open issues related to dm_paste(), would fixing any of those issues help? Please link to those issues from here and upvote them with a 👍 in the original post.