Fellow DBIers,
I've been having a need in my tests to be able to disconnect all
current connections to a database—before I drop the database, for
example. Now my code uses connect_cached(), so this used to be quite
a PITA, because the DBI was keeping connections open!
But then I stumbled on the new installed_drivers() method and figured
out how to do it:
my %drhs = DBI->installed_drivers;
$_->disconnect for grep { defined }
values %{ $drhs{Pg}->{CachedKids} };
This works great! But I hadn't realized that installed_drivers() was
added to the DBI only recently, so my fellow hackers suddenly started
to get strange failures. Once we figured out the problem, everyone
upgraded, but I'm left with this question:
Was there any way to get hold of all cached database handles from the
DBI before the introduction of installed_drivers() in 1.49?
Oh, and on a side note: How come installed_drivers() isn't mentioned
in DBI::Changes?
Thanks!
David
