Thanks a lot Perrin, i will follow your recomendations... i've used the global variable for the database handler for simplicity and to avoid the local declaration and the method call, but i see the point in your advice.
I will debug the code with more detail. Hans On Fri, 07 May 2004 18:16:48 -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote > On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 17:03, Hans Poo R. wrote: > > Fosis::handler is the main Dispatcher of the dynamic content. It can use the > > database handler via a Global variable $dbh > > It's not a good practice to put a database handle in a global. > Apache::DBI does it, but it also pings the handle before using it and > uses a cleanup handler to do a rollback. Putting it in your own global > could result in a dead handle getting used if you aren't careful. > > I'd suggest that you create an accessor function instead, like > Fosis::get_dbh(), and always call that to get a handle. (It's okay > to put it in a lexical variable temporarilly.) That function would call > DBI->connect() which will go through Apache::DBI. > > This might be the cause of the problems you're having, or it might > not, but it's definitely a red flag for me. > > > I turned on $Apache::DBI on level 2 of debugging and i've included the output > > of the error_log. It doesn't look so bad... > > It doesn't look bad to me either, but I still think you might want to > run through the debugger and look at where this problem occurs. Either > that, or add a bunch of logging to trace the execution path. I don't > know any other way to find out what's going on when that message is > generated. > > - Perrin Hans Poo, http://hans.opensource.cl, [EMAIL PROTECTED], F: 56-2-2010820 Santiago, Chile Consultor Linux. Desarrollo de Software OpenSource. -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
