in reply to DB persistance in win32

You may find the discussion regarding mod_perl1, it's limitations and workarounds here useful.

The discussion also points to using mod_perl_2 in conjunction with Perl 5.8, which uses Win32 native threads to get around most of the mod_perl_1 limitations, but also warns that it is currently considered an alpha solution. Further discussion of the what, why and how can be found here.

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1) When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2) The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible
3) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke.

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