Benjamin Hitz wrote:
So - I hope this is a useful summary for people who are still trying this - and also I am hoping that someone has some insight on why my $dbh goes stale. It was my understanding that $self->dbh_config would reconnect if the handle went "bad" but probably I am misunderstanding something.
It will probably reconnect if the handle isn't there. But not if it goes bad. I don't know for sure since I don't use that plugin. But it's a common problem when dealing with persistant DB connections. If you want to see how mod_perl folks handle, take a look at Apache::DBI. Look at it's connect() method and particularly how it uses ping().
A lot of it is magic so things just work under mod_perl and so you don't need to wrap your DBI calls. You could make a similar FastCGI::DBI module if you wanted to (and put it on CPAN so others can use it too), or just wrap all of your DBI->connect calls with something like this.
It's not trivial to get it 100% correct and if you weren't using Oracle (which has such a high cost for creating connections) and instead using PostgreSQL or MySQL then I'd say don't bother. But since you are using Oracle it's probably worth doing.
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