My gut says that this sounds like a race condition, but you seem to be taking reasonable precautions, such as checking the table exists before dropping it and so forth. I spotted one problem in a quick look over the linked code, which may or may not be connected to this:

Using ${Database}.(conv|pt|a)_${RemoteAddr} for your temp table names will generate collisions if you have multiple users accessing the app through the same proxy or NATting firewall, since their requests will be coming from the same address. You can avoid this by generating a random cookie and appending it to the address in your table names. (If you already have a session ID independent of the remote address, it would be perfect for this.)

Back to your original question, how does this fail when it fails? Does it return an error, hang, or what?

In reply to Re: DBI seems to randomly die by dsheroh
in thread DBI seems to randomly die by FitTrend

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