I think the answer is in the error message itself. You need to issue an explicit disconnect before your program exits. This is probably coming out of the database driver, since the quick skimming of DBI examples I've done doesn't explicitely seem to require a disconnect, but does urge it.

With a perl object such as you have here, this can be guaranteed with a DESTROY method:

=pod
=item DESTROY

   Called when the last reference to the object goes away.
=cut
sub DESTROY {
   my($self) = @_ ;

   if( $self->{_dbh } ) {
      # check in case it was deallocated somewhere else
      $self->{_dbh}->disconnect() ;
   }

}

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in thread DBI and Modules by set_uk

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