On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Martin J. Evans <martin.ev...@easysoft.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there anything special a subclassed DBI module (DBIx::Log4perl in > this case) needs to do for the clone method? > > The DBI docs currently say "The clone method duplicates the $dbh > connection by connecting with the same parameters ($dsn, $user, > $password) as originally used." but I don't see any call to connect when > clone is called.
Presumably the "clone" method gives the driver an opportunity to duplicate an already-connected connection in a more efficient way than simply reconnecting from "scratch".