Sybase has a known issue along these lines. From what I know it does not finish and can't be made to finish a fetchrow_array until it reads a null result. As I understand it this is a peculiarity of the Sybase library functions. This is mentioned at Re^4: portable mysql auto_increment in relation to Sybase choking with DBIx::Sequence

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tachyon

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