Apache::DBI transparently upgrades your DBI connections to pooled, persistent connections. No extra work needed.

Personally, I use a small set of 'helper' functions to do database queries. eg:
 my @returned = 
   withDB {
     # In here $_[0] is the database connection
     # Connection will be closed automatically when this sub exits.

     # Any exceptions will be caught, database handles
     # cleaned up, and the exception re-thrown.
     
     # Optionally pass 'handle factory' after this block.
   };

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Works well with other functions like: 
  withDB {
    forSelect {

      # $_[0] is a hashref of current row from selection.

    } shift, $query, \@bindvals;
  };

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I'm not sure if others see this as good/bad/no-style.
I don't use any of the Class::DBI alikes... never found them compelling.

-David

In reply to Re: How to share DBI connections between objects? by erroneousBollock
in thread How to share DBI connections between objects? by blahblah

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