Take a lesson from slashdot's database connection routine. Basically, you have a connect() function that will check if you are still connected. If yes, then all is well and return, but if connection has gone away, we try to reconnect again.

Then have a wrapper for DBI's execute() function that will call connect() everytime before a real execute goes to your database. This may suffer a small preformance penality, but you need this in your production servers.

The slashcode function in question is called sqlConnect in file Slash/DB/Utility/Utility.pm

To re-establish a connection, slashcode actually calls the connect function recursively, which is interesting. Hopefully they know that the function won't be called over and over again.

In reply to Re: MySQL server has gone away by akis
in thread MySQL server has gone away by Massyn

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