[Catalyst-dev] Re: Bug in Catalyst::Model::DBI .15

[A. Pagaltzis]

* Evan Carroll <lists at evancarroll.com> [2007-05-06 10:55]:
> With that said, the patch provided has no drawbacks, and even
> if you only use the most minimal functionality of M::DBI, with
> the current code, you don't have a connection until the first
> ->dbh is called, which is no bueno. (work that is better
> handled at compile-time)

That is precisely the patch’s drawback. Connecting lazily rather
than eagerly is a feature.

However, that’s not hard to correct, although the patch would be
larger: rather than squirreling away a connection in `new`,
squirrel away a reference to an undef scalar. Then you can assign
the handle to that scalar, and it will be shared among everyone
who kept a copy of the same reference.

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