[Catalyst] do I need to load Apache::DBI?

[Matt S Trout]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:04:27AM -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> On 7/24/07, Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk> wrote:
> > Apache::DBI is an awful hack and should be avoided where possible.
> 
> Kind of an exaggeration.  Apache::DBI is a useful module for porting
> existing CGI scripts to mod_perl.  If you aren't porting CGI scripts
> to mod_perl, you

... don't need an awful hack to get a persistent DB connection :)

I used to consider it a neat hack. After some time with the internals,
some fun explicitly disabling it within DBIC since it sometimes broke our
reconnect code, and even then discovering I could often solve client mod_perl
problems by removing the line that loaded it from httpd.conf, I reclassified
it was 'awful'.

So from where I'm standing, it's not an exaggeration at all.

I guess if you're not using something with smart reconnect logic like
DBIC, it's a different matter. I can't figure out where the equivalent code
is in RDBO so I've no idea how intelligent it is.

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