Re: Oddity when creating DB handles

At 21:21 +0100 9/17/03, Nick Djurovich wrote:
>I have a test perl script that opens a connection to a db. I was just
>playing with threads to see if I could get 10 workers each with
>their own db connection.
>
>The problem is that if just the threads instantiate a DB instance
>its okay, if the main script instantiates a db handle beforehand,
>it throws an error ;

This is probably because the DBI driver builds some internal 
data-structures that can't stand being CLONEd when threads are 
started.

You will need a DBD::Mysql driver that can stand being CLONEd.  I 
have no idea about the state of that.  Check the dbi-dev mailing list.


Hope this helps.


Liz