[Catalyst] Graceful handling of database failure

[Oleg Pronin]

I use it for 3 years. It might be used in production i think.
About 5 minutes: there are a set of attributes (ReconnectRetries,
ReconnectTimeout, etc) - you can manipulate how long it will reconnect.

2008/6/20 Mitch Jackson <perimus at gmail.com>:

> > You can use DBIx::Class with DBIx::RetryOverDisconnects as DBI handle a=
nd
> > you will never got db server away message (it will reconnect as long as
> > required until database is up and no queries and transactions will be
> lost).
>
> Looks cool, but it's got a big warning on it saying it's not stable
> for production.  Also, if the database server goes away for 5 minutes,
> then instead of error 500 pages, now the website is just timing out to
> the browser. That's less descriptive for the end user, when what I'm
> aiming at is giving more of a "we've got a handle on things"
> appearance to the errors when they happen.
>
> /Mitch
>
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