It is normal that you see your connections to be sleeping. Most queries take only a very short while to run and you will have to click the refresh button at exactly the right moment to see your connection being active.

Don't use Apache::DBI together with DBIx::Class, they don't play well together. Both use a different philosophy which are not really compatible.

The beauty of DBIx::Class is that it manages, caches and re-uses your DB-connections all by itself so you don't have to worry about them. Just connect to your DB at the beginning of your script and forget all about it. If you start extracting the databasehandle and use that or connect and disconnect repeatedly, you are on your own and will miss a lot of the benefits of DBIx::Class.

I use this module a lot in a mod-perl environment and never worry about such low-level things as managing the DB-connection or --Gods forbid!-- directly using the database-handle.

CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

In reply to Re^5: [DBIx::Class] Can I extract $dbhandle from schema? by CountZero
in thread [DBIx::Class] Can I extract $dbhandle from schema? by dreel

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