I don't think that bug report has anything to do with your problem, unless you're using DESTROY methods and/or END blocks. If you were calling any of these subs from an END or DESTROY block, I would think (or hope) that you would have mentioned it. I think the problem is still that either you are not connecting to the database and don't realize it, or your database handle does not have the scope you think it does (or your calling the routines from an END or DESTROY block). We still haven't seen enough code to determine either.