Ian Kallen wrote:
>
> I've done everything I can think of to shore up any DB connection
> flakiness but I'm still plagued by errors such as these:
> DBD::Oracle::db selectcol_arrayref failed: ORA-12571: TNS:packet writer
> failure
> ...this is only a problem under mod_perl, outside of the
> mod_perl/Apache::DBI environment everything seems fine. Once the db
> connection is in this state, it's useless until the server gets a restart.
>
> My connect strings look good and agree, I put Stas' ping method in the
> DBD::Oracle::db package, set a low timeout, called Oracle (they don't
> want to hear about it). Everything is the latest versions of
> mod_perl/Apache/DBI/DBD::Oracle connecting to an Oracle 8.1.5 db on
> Solaris. Is Apache::DBI not up to it? (it looks simple enough)
>
> Maybe there's a better persistent connection method I should be looking
> at?
>
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I don't think this has anything to do with mod_perl - as I have
seen this error on my own development box using sqlplus on Linux
with Oracle 8. It seems to happen when I use ^C to interrupt a
previous request.
Amy
