On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Francesco Pasqualini wrote:
> I think in the current version of modperl there is an important feature
> missing.
> At this time is not possible to share resources between apache childs and so
> we can not use "really" persistent DBI coneection.
> What I intend is the possibility to store a DBI connection in the $Session
> hash (Apache::ASP or Apache::Session).
> In this way we can start a DB connection for each user session and we can
> have different application upon differnet DB.
> The connection is started when the user session start, is maintenied in
> memory (in the apache main process ?),it is visible to the apache childs
> (threads) and is destroied at session end.
>
> With the efforts (syntax tree sharing between threads) necessary to port
> modperl to apache 2, will be possible to implement such a feature ?
it will be possible to share db connections between threads. but 2.0 is
hybrid, there are still multiple processes, you cannot share db
connections between them, without something like DBD::Proxy.
