On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Daniel Manley <daniel.man...@points.com> wrote: > well, I think I figured this one out on my own. Though I've used Perl for a > number of years, I've never gotten to the XS file coding. and so after > running this under perl debug, I finally get the hint that maybe the mysql > ping() is done in C. And so it is.
FYI, you should be able to define your own ping() and see it called. The Apache::DBI docs show how. - Perrin