Re: mod_perl/Apache::DBI

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Vince Veselosky wrote:
> I had a similar problem but approached it in a different way. 
> Apache::DBI can tell when the handle goes stale IFF the DBD implements 
> the 'ping' method. The standard MySQL driver apparently does not 
> implement said method, but I found some pointers in the man page that 
> showed a simple way to implement one. So I placed the following code in 
> a .pm file and load it early in the startup.pl. This has solved all my 
> problems in that area.Hope it helps you.

Does anyone know why the standard DBD::mysql module doesn't include this 
ping method?  Shouldn't it have been added long ago?

-Andy