Re: mod_perl and DBI::Proxy

2000-09-28 Thread Tim Bunce
It has promise but needs someone to polish it up. (I didn't write it and have barely looked at the code.) Tim. On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 12:50:57PM -0700, Tom Lancaster wrote: I know, seems promising, doesn't it, especially after the overview in the DBI book. On the other hand, you can do most

mod_perl and DBI::Proxy

2000-09-19 Thread Bill McCabe
Hi All I'm thinking of restructuring my setup so that I have my apache/mod_perl servers access database servers remotely using DBI::Proxy, rather than locally. Does anyone have a sense of what kind of performance degradation I should expect? Will it come chiefly from network latency (leaving

Re: mod_perl and DBI::Proxy

2000-09-19 Thread Tom Lancaster
My experience of using DBI::Proxy several months ago is that it's terribly slow, and breaks all the time. It's not meant to be used in a production environment ( and that's according to the authors ). I managed to get it running, on linux and NT, but due to the lack of a working fork() or

Re: mod_perl and DBI::Proxy

2000-09-19 Thread Tom Lancaster
I know, seems promising, doesn't it, especially after the overview in the DBI book. On the other hand, you can do most things another way - SSH port forwarding for encrypted data transmission, straight DBI/DBD available for most dbs, etc. Bill McCabe wrote: That's a shame. I can see good use