Re: Oracle ping
"David E. Wheeler" <[email protected]>
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On Nov 5, 2012, at 7:59 AM, Martin J. Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to reiterate what I eventually said. I don't want ping changed in DBD::Oracle. > > All I was saying is you should only read anything useful into ping returning false and not true unless your only purpose is like Oracle's OCIPing which checks your connection is still there (although not usable for some things). I believe the connection caching only does anything when ping returns false. Hrm. Well I wonder if I *should* just use DBI->ping in DBIx::Connector for Oracle rather than `select 1 from dual`. Or perhaps make it an option to switch to the select statement. Thoughts? David