Erik Aronesty wrote: > 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". > >
It would appear so. I've added a "mock" clone method to DBIx::Log4perl and obviously it is called but I never see a second call to connect so either I am misunderstanding things here and/or the docs are a simplification. Martin
