DBD::Oracle use_drcp and connection class

Hello, after looking at the sources of DBD::Oracle I am somewhat confused. OCI offers Session pooling and Connection pooling. "DRCP" is abbreviation for "connection pooling", but DBD::Oracle offers "session pooling", which is not exactly the same. Connected to this is the question about

DBD::Oracle ping terminates script

Hi! I have hit very weird problem with method 'ping' of DBD::Oracle. Here's small script that illustrates it. --- #!/usr/bin/perl use DBI; my $dbh= DBI-connect('dbi:Oracle:mydb', 'myuser', 'mypass', {RaiseError = 1, PrintError = 1, AutoCommit = 0}); die unless $dbh;