Tim Bunce wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 01:19:43PM +0100, Martin Evans wrote: >> This is my second attempt to try and get some insight into how to do >> this. The DBD::ODBC::ping method calls DBI::_new_sth to obtain a new >> statement handle but DBD::ODBC prevents creating a new statement handle >> when not connected (you cannot actually get one even if you wanted). The >> problem is once DBD::ODBC discovers we are not connected it does: >> >> DBIh_SET_ERR_CHAR( >> h, imp_xxh, Nullch, 1, >> "Cannot allocate statement when disconnected from the database", >> "08003", Nullch); >> >> and because PrintError is on the error is output and because RaiseError >> is on the error handler is called. Most people are calling ping when not >> connected and do not want this error and I wanted to mask it by >> temporarily disabling PrintError and RaiseError but it does not seem to >> work for me. >> >> Initially I tried using local $dbh->{PrintError} = 0 but this did not >> work. Then I remembered I needed to call STORE from inside the driver so >> changed to $dbh->STORE('PrintError', 0); but that does not work either. > > That should work. Try calling $dbh->dump_handle after (and after doing > the same for RaiseError) that to see what the state of the handle is. > > Tim. > > p.s. You could also try using the HandleError attribute, but the above should > work so let's find out what's happening there first. > >
Thanks for the help Tim. Ignoring RaiseError for now as I'm imagining it will work (once it works) the same as PrintError. The ping sub is currently: sub ping { my $dbh = shift; my $state = undef; my ($catalog, $schema, $table, $type); $catalog = q{}; $schema = q{}; $table = 'NOXXTABLE'; $type = q{}; print "PrintError=", $dbh->FETCH('PrintError'), "\n"; my $pe = $dbh->FETCH('PrintError'); $dbh->STORE('PrintError', 0); $dbh->dump_handle; my $evalret = eval { # create a "blank" statement handle my $sth = DBI::_new_sth($dbh, { 'Statement' => "SQLTables_PING" }) or return 1; DBD::ODBC::st::_tables($dbh,$sth, $catalog, $schema, $table, $type) or return 1; $sth->finish; return 0; }; $dbh->STORE('PrintError', $pe); if ($evalret == 0) { return 1; } else { return 0; } } and the following perl and output are observed: perl -Iblib/lib -Iblib/arch -le 'use DBI;$h = DBI->connect();print "ping=",$h->ping(),"\n";$h->disconnect; print "ping=",$h->ping(), "\n";' PrintError=1 DBI::dump_handle (dbh 0x82c382c, com 0x82c4560, imp DBD::ODBC::db): FLAGS 0x100217: COMSET IMPSET Active Warn PrintWarn AutoCommit ERR '' ERRSTR '[unixODBC][Easysoft][SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Changed language setting to us_english. (SQL-01000) [unixODBC][Easysoft][SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Changed database context to 'master'. (SQL-01000)' PARENT DBI::dr=HASH(0x82bc5e0) KIDS 0 (0 Active) Name 'baugi' ping=1 PrintError=1 DBI::dump_handle (dbh 0x82c382c, com 0x82c4560, imp DBD::ODBC::db): FLAGS 0x100213: COMSET IMPSET Warn PrintWarn AutoCommit PARENT DBI::dr=HASH(0x82bc5e0) KIDS 0 (0 Active) Name 'baugi' DBD::ODBC::db ping failed: Cannot allocate statement when disconnected from the database at -e line 1. ping=0 I don't know if it is anything of a clue but if I fail to restore PrintError with STORE at the end of ping, the error is not seen in the second call to ping). Martin -- Martin J. Evans Easysoft Limited http://www.easysoft.com