I wrote a program that performs numerous independent database
operations, essentially the same operation on a number of different
tables. For performance reasons I decided to have the program fork and
each child operate on a different table. It worked like a champ. The
environment was Windows 2000, ActiveState Perl 5.6.1, and DBI 1.23. I
upgraded to DBI 1.37 and now I get a memory error "The instruction at
<Hex Address> referenced memory at <Hex Address>. The memory could not
be read." I've tried this on other Windows machines in our office and
get the same error.
I started removing pieces until I was left with this:
use DBI;
my $pid = fork;
if ($pid) {
print 'Parent', "\n";
}
else {
print 'Child', "\n";
}
For this one program I have returned to using ODBC but that adds
unwanted complexity to our system having to understand and maintain two
different DB link methods. I'd like to be able to use just DBI but this
problem prevents it.
