Re: Apache pre-forking

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On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 04:43:43PM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote:
> 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.

I think you, and Perrin, are right.

Tim.