I have a global hash %SESH localized and tied to an Apache::Session::MySQL using a global $dbh from Apache::DBI.

I've been using items from %SESH as bind values all over the place for $dbh->selectrow_array's, seemingly with no problem.

I just went to use a %SESH item as a bind value for a $dbh->do(insert), and it ended up as a NULL in the database even though I was sure that it had a valid value.

After an hour of fuddling I tried setting it to a my $value = $SESH{'value'} and then using $value in the insert rather than the $SESH{'value'} on the insert.

It worked. There must be some kind of conflict with the locking mechanism, given that %SESH is tied to the same database handle that I am doing the insert on.

My question is, is this expected behaviour? That it will work only as a bind value for selects and not inserts? And it will silently fail? Or should I be avoiding using %SESH as a bind value in any database activity?

-Andrew.

Andrew Tomazos  |  andrew@tomazos.com  |  www.tomazos.com

In reply to Weird Apache::Session::MySQL and DBI conflict by tomazos

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