On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Anthony Esposito <tony.m.espos...@gmail.com> wrote: > In one of my programs I started to receive database errors for not having a > unique id. I generate unique ids for each of the mysql lines that I add to > the database. I realized that the perl variable $idNum was keeping the same > random string for multiple executions.
You need to call srand() in s a child init handler: http://marc.info/?l=apache-modperl&m=123904225030744&w=1 However, I have to ask, why are you generating id numbers randomly? Why not just let mysql do it with auto_increment? - Perrin
