On Dec 23, 2010, at 10:52 PM, David Nicol wrote: > Are you trying to use Apache pooling within mod_perl? I tried that for a > while and gave up due to lock contention issues, switching to a paradigm > where I opened, transacted, closed without caching any database stuff and my > locking issues went away. This means among other things, no persistent > prepared statements.
Nope. This is a standalone script that runs on a cron job. It's just that sometimes the previous run is still going when a new run starts. I'm porting it to PostgreSQL. That will end the issue. David