On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 09:00:23AM -0700, Tim Howell wrote: > > Just a quick note to let everyone know that I haven't dropped off the > face of the planet and am, indeed working on DBD::Proxy. I got slammed > by a couple of projects on my return from OSCON and the programming side > of my job was pushed to the back burner for some time. That said, I'm > now actively working on the code and hope to have release-ready code in > the next couple of weeks.
Great. Thanks Tim. > Here are the items I've currently got on the list: > > 1. Better support for dead connections. In our setup we have > applications running with Apache::DBI on linux that need to connect to a > ProxyServer running on Win2K. Currently, if the ProxyServer dies for > any reason, and then the application attempts to query it using an > already established connection, the application dies. I think better > behavior would be for an automatic reconnect to be attempted, and, if > that fails, for the application to die. As I'm writing this, though, I > wonder if it would be better to have the application itself eval a quick > test of the dbh returned from DBI->connect and do the reconnect there if > there are problems. I'm certainly open to feedback on this. By default it should simply cause the DBI method to fail via $h->set_err(...). Optionally it could support auto-retry *if* AutoCommit is off. But the docs should warn about silent loss of any locks the app may have had. Tim.
