Thanks to everyone who responded to my previous question regarding DBI -- I had my sysadmin upgrade to the latest (1.19) version of DBI, which includes the missing functions, and now I have those functions... Hooray.

But of course, I now have a different problem...

The disconnect function no longer works -- instead, it Croaks a message about "DBI->disconnect is not a DBI method." I investigated a bit, and found that there's a new function, DBI->disconnect_all ... however, this doesn't seem to do anything, because I still get those "Database handle destroyed without explicit disconnect" warnings.

I checked the MySQL module, and didn't find a disconnect method there.

So, where is the disconnect method supposed to be defined? Or, if I'm supposed to be using the disconnect_all method now, why isn't that working? Or, how can I define my own disconnect method? Or, why won't DBI play nice?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out... I love Perl, and I like DBI, but sometimes they can frustrate the bejesus out of me...

In reply to DBI-disconnect ??? by christopherbarsuk

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