[Israel.pm] Weird problem with DB connection & forking...

[Yuval Yaari]

Pinkhas Nisanov wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:12, Yuval Yaari wrote:
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>>This really worked well on the old machine but on the new machine it 
>>says "DBD::mysql::db selectrow_array failed: MySQL server has gone away 
>>at..." when I try to selectrow_array.
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>Somewhere in DBI man page I saw that DBI connection
>sometimes do not survive fork, so after fork you
>need to reconnect to DB, better way do not use father's
>dbi handler, create new one for child.
>
I forgot to ask, why didn't it happen before [older 
DBD::mysql/DBI/perl/MySQL versions]?

  --Yuval