Re: Apache pre-forking

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On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Tony Bowden wrote:

> So, IIUC
>  - It's a good idea to pre-load modules in your Apache startup
>  - It's a bad idea to have database connections as part of these
>
> So how do people marry these two concepts if they're being sufficiently
> lazy to use a driver specific Class::DBI subclass that sets up the
> column info etc at compile time by accessing the database?

I think it's ok to have db connections pre-fork, as long as they are
closed before the fork takes place. IIRC, the problems occur with some
drivers when the handles are duplicated.

I could be wrong.

Simon.