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Thursday February 14, 2002
04:54 PM

Finally!

[ #2875 ]
This one had me seriously stressed out...

Co-worker changed some code. Code suddenly stops working correctly, but for no apparent reason. Error log didn't make any sense - different stopping point each time. Then finally, it dawned on me...

Little safety tip - create database handles after you do your forking & stuff when working with Oracle. :)

I'd slap him for moving that line, but then it's partially my own fault for not putting a comment about it in there.


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  • DBI handles just don't survive a fork. The database server doesn't matter.
    • In Slash, we connect with DBI before Apache forks, cache some data and do whatever we need to do in the parent process, kill the DBI handle, and then reopen a new DBI handle in each child.
    • Actually, it *is* RDMS specific, at least that's what the docs indicate. I've only ever used DBI with Oracle. From the DBI docs (note the italicized part):

      InactiveDestroy (boolean)

      This attribute can be used to disable the database engine related effect of DESTROYing a handle (which would normally close a prepared statement or disconnect from the database etc). For a database handle, this attribute does not disable an explicit call to the disconnect method, only the implicit call from DESTROY.

      This at

      • And it doesn't work with MySQL. I think I've seen this problem with Postgres too.

        I haven't tried it with any others.

        At the very least, its not Oracle specific and I'd expect to fail more often than not.
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