Dear Monks

I've created a server-script that puts client calls into a thread. However, each thread has to communicate with a DB. Because clients are always very impatient I had the briliant idea to connect to the DB during initialization of the server-script, and then share the connection between the threads. The code of the script
..... init stuff ......
my $db = DBI->connect(.....)
my $manage = MyPackage->new( $db ) ;
..... end init stuff .....
..... usage .......
push @threads, new Thread \&start_thread, $manage ;
.....

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However, this is what happens when I run the code:
thread failed to start: DBD::mysql::db quote failed: handle 2 is owned
+ by thread 8166008 not current thread 9178d90 (handles can't be share
+d between threads and your driver may need a CLONE method added) at /
+usr/lib/perl5........

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So, I cannot share the database connection, right ?
It suggests cloning or should I make a poule of DB connections and give each thread a connection of its own (and when the thread stops the DB connection will be available for an other thread). As I said before I don't want to make a DB connection at the moment I create the thread!

Any suggestions ?

Thnx
LuCa

In reply to share MySQL resources among threads by jeanluca

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