Re: subclassing the DBI and the clone method

Erik Aronesty <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.dbi.sybase.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Martin J. Evans
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there anything special a subclassed DBI module (DBIx::Log4perl in
> this case) needs to do for the clone method?
>
> The DBI docs currently say "The clone method duplicates the $dbh
> connection by connecting with the same parameters ($dsn, $user,
> $password) as originally used." but I don't see any call to connect when
> clone is called.

Presumably the "clone" method gives the driver an opportunity to
duplicate an already-connected connection in a more efficient way than
simply reconnecting from "scratch".
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