A few days ago I started writing apps using Mason. For some reason the following code;

my $sql = "this is not sql"  ;
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql) or $m->abort(500) ;

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does not trigger the abort, finding this a bit strange, I then ran the following under mod_perl 
use DBI ;

my $r = Apache->request;
$r->content_type("text/html");
$r->send_http_header();

$dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:mysql:test:localhost', 'user', 'pass' );

my $sql = "blah blah blah"  ;
my $sth =  $dbh->prepare($sql) or die('sql prepare error');
$sth->execute()  ;
my ($name) = $sth->fetchrow_array;

$r->print( ".$name.\n") ;

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In both cases the DBD::mysql::st error is written to the error log, but not the die error from my program. To try and prevent myself from going mad, I did the exact same thing using traditional cgi and still no die() error. Even if the script is executed from the command line it still doesn't die!!

Shouldn't prepare return a undefined reference on error, forcing the die to be executed?

If it helps, I'm running Debian Woody, with Perl 5.6.1 and DBI 1.31

In reply to $dbh->prepare not triggering die by Nomis52

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