>Depending on how you log into the system, the >user will connect to different databases. When they do this, I store the >Database Handle from DBI/DBD as $main::dbh. This variable has the scope of >"the length of processing the request" and then should become undef. Easy >under normal CGI, because you start with a whole new memory space. If I make >this a variable in db_ora.pm, it then is persistant "forever"--or until I >restart apache. If I make it a local in foo.pl, it has the right lifespan, >but I can't figure out how to address is down in db_ora.pm--particularly >with it's not just "foo.pl" but 50 different top-level scripts. > >Can someone help? Pointer to documentation? Am I staring at something so >obvious that it would bite me?
Walt, I was not able to keep persistent connections without leaking memory until I switched to Apache::DBI. It did mean that I had to limit the number of processes to within the RAM available and make sure keep-alives were off, but this was fine. Tim
