Hi Perrin, > It looks to me like there's no danger here, just an annoying error message. > Your connection from the parent process is being passed across the fork, but > then when each child process tries to check it with ping() it fails and a new > connection is opened to replace it.
It looks like we still can use the way we do with Apache::DBI safely. The child process creates the new connection and replaces the one that's inherited but not ping-able. Will the new connection that's created be cached after then and the connection that's not ping-able will be discarded? Will this cached the new connection last until the child process exit? Will rollback be called when child process discovers the connection handle not ping-able? Will rollback be called when child process exit? Thanks, - xinhuan From: Perrin Harkins <phark...@gmail.com<mailto:phark...@gmail.com>> Date: Monday, June 3, 2013 5:14 PM To: Xinhuan Zheng <xzh...@christianbook.com<mailto:xzh...@christianbook.com>> Cc: Jim Schueler <jschue...@eloquency.com<mailto:jschue...@eloquency.com>>, "modperl@perl.apache.org<mailto:modperl@perl.apache.org>" <modperl@perl.apache.org<mailto:modperl@perl.apache.org>> Subject: Apache::DBI "connection lost contact" error On Monday, June 3, 2013, Xinhuan Zheng wrote: > What is the check to see if the server is restarting? Is that new child > processes spawning? It's a test for whether or not we're running in the parent process, used to skip caching connections during startup. It's this, line 128: if (Apache2::ServerUtil::restart_count() == 1) { > If there is a bug in how it checks to see if the server is restarting, does > it affect putting it into production use? It looks to me like there's no danger here, just an annoying error message. Your connection from the parent process is being passed across the fork, but then when each child process tries to check it with ping() it fails and a new connection is opened to replace it. I'll investigate the possible bug further when I get back from the conference I'm at right now (YAPC::NA in Austin). - Perrin
