Dear Monks,

I've this program that once in a while runs for weeks. But, after running for a few days, somehow the connection with the database gets lost. I searched the form and found mysql_auto_reconnect, which seems to work. I've tested it by doing
$mysql->disconnect() ;
$sth = $mysql->prepare(...) ;
......

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So, how can I tell now if I'm disconnected ?
But, I don't really like this solution, because this only works if you have $mysql->{autocommit} = 1
So what I tried was:
$sth = $mysql->prepare(...) ;
if ( ! $sth-execute() ) { # connection lost ?
       # reconnect
}

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So I assumed that if a request failed, the connection was lost. Anyway, to simulate a lost connection I added before the prepare() a
$mysql->disconnect()
But now, my perl script stops when it tries to execute the sql command ?

Any suggestions ?

Thanks a lot in advance
Luca

In reply to mysql_auto_reconnect by Anonymous Monk

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