Lianna Eeftinck wrote: > Just curious, why would you want to make two connections to the same > database with only a difference in the mysql_enable_utf8 option? It is > generally a bad idea to open more than one connection to a database because > you might find updates in one are not showing up straight away in the > other, such as when transactions are involved. It also takes more resources > on both sides.
It's read-only access to this database, so there's no risk, and I don't think two connections rather than one is likely to lead to a resource problem. > UTF8 and string encoding options can probably be handled in other ways from > one and the same connection. I'm open to any suggestions, but for now it looks like the two-connection approach solves my problem. Cheers, Dave PS Thanks to everybody else who replied. _______________________________________________ List: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbix-class IRC: irc.perl.org#dbix-class SVN: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/bast/DBIx-Class/ Searchable Archive: http://www.grokbase.com/group/dbix-class@lists.scsys.co.uk
