On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:47:31AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > One slight downside is that $DBI::PurePerl::lasth will hold a reference
> > to the last handle thus potentially preventing global destruction.
> > The DBI plays naughty low-level tricks to avoid that.
> > But we'll need $DBI::PurePerl::lasth to emulate $DBI::lasth so
> > we have to face it. Optionally using this
> > http://search.cpan.org/doc/LUKKA/WeakRef-0.01/WeakRef.pm
> > if available will help.
> >
> > Tim.
>
> Is $DBI::lasth really worth the trouble? I would rather not have to use one
> handle just to free another. I'm already paranoid about my handles not getting
> freed. What does $DBI::lasth give users that they can't get otherwise?
It could possibly be avoided with DBI::PurePerl at the cost of some speed.
But that's probably not a big issue :-)
Jeff, for the time being try just having set_err() also do
$DBI::err = $h->{err};
$DBI::errstr = $h->{errstr};
$DBI::state = $h->{state}; # might need some extra logic here
Tim.
