On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 09:38:48 -0700 (PDT) Thomas Hilbig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The recent discussion on sharing (or not!) DBI > connections among forked/threaded processes leaves me > wanting to know if there is a well-established method > for sharing DBI connections among separate processes. > While it may be off topic for the DBI list, I can't > think of a better use for it than a DBI application > (such as sharing connections among web/CGI programs). There isn't. mod_perl and Apache::DBI allow some connection pooling, but I'm not sure how it's done. Discussing DBI handles is definitely on topic. > I assume the proper way of doing it is using a > messaging mechanism, but there are probably dozens of > different methods of doing it with caveats for each. > If anyone has solved this in the past, could you > provide a snippet of the client and server scripts? If you can get it to work, Tim would be very interested to see how. There is a lot of magic going on behind the scenes that doesn't react well to being passed in a message. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age.
