Hi All,

I have a question in follow up of threads 119171 and 103323. I have exactly the same problem as I store my dbi object as an attribute of my object. For example. 

sub opendb {
   my $self=shift;
   $self->{_dbh}=DBI->connect(...);
   return $self->{_dbh};
   }

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Now I want to commit the transactions in a DESTROY 
sub DESTROY {
   my $self=shift;
   local($@);
   if ( $self->{_dbh} and $self->{_dbh}->ping ) {
      warn;  ## to debug
      $self->{_dbh}->commit;
      $self->{_dbh}->disconnect;
      }
   }

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The strange thing is that warn is not called in every script script, although I am sure that I call opendb everytime. I think that the _dbh attribute is destroyed before $self itself is destroyed!

This problem is noted before, and a forced $self->{_dbh}->commit is the best solution. But they mention also that this problem will be solved in future versions of perl.

Now, is this already solved? I use 5.005_03 on solaris (which is not installed nor maintained by me).
And is there a good way of debugging OO problems like this? (using some Devel package?)

Thanks for your assistance,
---------------------------
Dr. Mark Ceulemans
Senior Consultant
IT Masters, Belgium

In reply to DESTROY and DBI by mce

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