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

[Matt S Trout]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 06:19:09PM -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> On 7/30/07, Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk> wrote:
> > 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'.
> 
> Your implication is that Apache::DBI doesn't work, as opposed to
> simply clashing with some of the DBIC code that tries to manage the
> same connections.  It works just fine.  It's widely-used and does what
> it was intended to without known bugs.

Except in the DBIx::Class, Class::DBI and plain DBI apps I've brought back
to production quality stability by removing it.

There's no "implication" - sometimes it doesn't work. Mostly it does. Producing
a repeatable test case has proven pretty much impossible due to the hackiness
of the implementation. Since I usually -can- modify the calling code I
just switch it over to using a DBIC storage object to manage the $dbh and
move on.

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