(Slight dup of recent post to perlmonks, but more specific to DBI)
I just discovered the Pots::* (http://search.cpan.org/~rchibois/Pots-0.01/) modules, and wondered if anyone had tried using them w/ DBI ? I've had a notion of creating a DBIx::Threaded subclass (or actually, container class) that would hopefully work around the current DBI restrictions wrt threads (ie, no sharing of DBI handles between threads). Essentially, connect() would start a server thread which would run the real DBI i/f, and the client/container class would implement all the public DBI methods. While the parameters/ results serialization might be expensive (uses Storable), it would solve my current problem (how to share dynamically created connections between worker threads), and if I get ambitious, I might attempt to hack Pots up to optimize the serialization where possible (copy params/results to threads::shared variables to pass, rather than using Storable to fully marshall/unmarshall). Any experiences (or comments) much appreciated, Dean Arnold Presicient Corp.
