Re: $dbh->{CachedKids}

On May 9, 2008, at 04:42, Tim Bunce wrote:

>> Only now I'm seeing that test fail on 5.6.2. Is it possible that  
>> 5.6.2
>> destroys the handle by the type the do() is called?
>
> Seems likely.

Yes, I've released a new version where the test checks for $] > 5.6.1  
instead of > 5.8.0.

> Got removed in May 2004
> http://svn.perl.org/viewvc/modules/dbi/trunk/t/07kids.t?r1=333&r2=335

Hrm. I guess it wasn't telling us much, since it's dependent on Perl  
versions, rather than the implementation of the DBI.

> If you really need to capture the complete state at the time the error
> *is recorded* rather than the time its *checked for and thrown* then
> you could use HandleSetErr instead of HandleError:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.604/DBI.pm#HandleSetErr_(code_ref,_inherited)

Interesting, I hadn't seen that. As for my uses, I just wanted to get  
my tests passing again. No one has complained about the state of the  
error information in Exception::Class::DBI, to my knowledge. So I  
think I'll leave it as-is.

Best,

David