Re: CGI::Session or CGI::Application

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On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 14:45 -0500, William McKee wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 08:15:31AM -0500, Michael Peters wrote:
> >   CGI::Session does not appear to be well maintained. It's very popular 
> > and I know many people who have tried to send in patches and fixes but 
> > the author has been unresponsive.
> 
> Which is really ashame since it's listed in the Phalanx 100[1].
> Nonetheless, it's been working fine for me (via the
> CGI::Application::Plugin::Session module).

Last time I looked at it, I was scared off by some of the things I saw
in the CGI::Session::MySQL module.  It doesn't use the most efficient
SQL constructs (no cached statement handles, no bind_cols) and has a
locking mechanism that adds nothing (except overhead) over the standard
MySQL atomic operations.  The PostgreSQL one doesn't use bind variables,
but rather manually quotes everything.  It just didn't give me much
confidence in the module.

- Perrin