Re: Apache pre-forking

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On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 17:19, Tim Bunce wrote:
> It doesn't cache connections, but does it (or something else) explicitly
> disconnect before the fork?

Good point, it does not.  Looking back at the code where I used this
under mod_perl with set_up_table(), I was fetching my own database
handle.  That was safe, because I went straight through Apache::DBI. 
Ima::DBI::_mk_db_closure(), which is called if you use set_db(), would
make the connection persistent even during Apache startup.

Ima::DBI does contain a $dbh->FETCH('Active') && $dbh->ping check, but
I'm not sure if that's enough to tell that a handle was opened before
forking.  Maybe an additional check is needed.

- Perrin