I might have a couple of ideas that will hopefully help.

1. From reading the POD for DBD::mysql, it notes the following:

This attribute is ignored when AutoCommit is turned off, and when AutoCommit is turned off, DBD::mysql will not automatically reconnect to the server.

Although, after DBD::mysql version 2.0416, this should default to 'on', you might want to try $handle->{'AutoCommit'} = 1; just in case.

2. You might want to verify that the version of DBD::mysql is recent. I know more and more functionality has been built into this module with later releases of MySQL

3. I haven't found this to be true for this specific attribute, however you might want to look into verifying that auto_reconnect is supported in MySQL 3.x; it might be a database-dependent type of attribute. I don't imagine so, especially since the CPAN POD doesn't hint towards this, however I have noticed fishy things with earlier releases of MySQL in very specific curcumstances, and it may be worth looking into if nothing else.

Good Luck!!

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In reply to Re: DBD::MySql - Problem with mysql_auto_reconnect not auto reconnecting. by wazzuteke
in thread DBD::MySql - Problem with mysql_auto_reconnect not auto reconnecting. by SmugX

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