DBI handle cleared whilst still active at Apache startup with mod_perl

[Fran Fabrizio]

I'm having a minor DBI problem with Apache/mod_perl and my web server 
startup script.   I do a DBI call in my startup.pl.  When I start the 
server, I get this in the error log:

Database handle destroyed without explicit disconnect at 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Apache/DBI.pm line 165.
DBI handle cleared whilst still active at 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/DBI.pm line 252.
   dbih_clearcom (h 0x8282c84, com 0x8b5bea0):
      FLAGS 0x211: COMSET Warn AutoCommit
      TYPE 1
      PARENT undef
      KIDS 0 (0 active)
      IMP_DATA undef in 'DBD::Pg::dr'
[Wed Aug 21 16:48:34 2002] [notice] Apache/1.3.24 (Unix) mod_perl/1.27 
mod_ssl/2.8.8 OpenSSL/0.9.6b configured -- resuming normal operations


Even though I have called disconnect().  My startup.pl looks like....

my $dbh = DBI->connect($DBNAME, $DBUSER, $DBPASS, {AutoCommit=>1, 
RaiseError=>0})
 or die "\n** Could not connect to the database\n\n $DBI::errstr\n\n";
my $dbversion = $dbh->selectall_arrayref
 ("SELECT schema_version FROM schema_info ORDER BY schema_date DESC 
LIMIT 1")->[0][0];
$dbh->disconnect();

I'm wondering if it's related to the forking of the parent apache into 
the children, since startup.pl runs from the parent.  Web searches turn 
up only vague references to this.  Has anyone seen this?  The server 
runs fine but the warnings on startup are ugly.

Thanks,
Fran