On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 10:22:35PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
> > > But how about a new method:
> > >
> > > DBI->connect_method("connect");
> > > DBI->connect_method("Apache::DBI::connect"); # effectively what "use
>Apache::DBI;" does now
> > > DBI->connect_method("connect_cached");
> >
> > Useful, but doesn't solve the problem.
>
> Actually it would. I wasn't very clear. The application would do
>
> DBI->connect_method("connect_cached");
> and
> $dbh = DBI->connect(...);
I'm confused. How, or maybe it's better to ask why, would this be different
than just:
$dbh = DBI->connect_cached(...);
Why would useing connect_method() make it automagical but connect_cached()
not?
> When not run under Apache::DBI you'd get connection caching via
> connect_cached and when run under Apache::DBI it could ignore the
> connect_method and force Apache::DBI::connect (by default).
>
> Or just add
>
> DBI->connect_method("connect_cached") unless $INC{'Apache/DBI.pm'};
>
> Would that be okay?
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