Re: preloading modules and apache::dbi

Hi Mike,

I believe the answer is that each http process will have its own handle.  At least that's what it appears to be when I view the handles via http://hostname/perl-status.

Hope you enjoy mod_perl.

 
Best regards,
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Brett Lee
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> From: mike cardeiro <[email protected]>
>To: modper <[email protected]> 
>Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 10:08 PM
>Subject: preloading modules and apache::dbi
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>Hi,
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>I am totally new to mod perl (after 13+ years of building web applications on shared servers I now am developing on a dedicated box woo-hoo)
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>I have installed apache::dbi and set it to preload in the apache config file.  Here is what I think my problem might be.
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>I have a library I want to preload.  This library makes a database connection and assigns it to a variable that is exported so all programs can use this handle.
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>will this global handle db handle be a single handle amongst all apache processes, or will each process load this library on its own thus having a unique db handle for each httpd process?
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>sorry if this is incoherent.
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>Mike Cardeiro
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