Hi,

I'm struggling to set a timeout value for a DB connection from Perl DBI to MySQL on Win32. No matter what I try it always seems to default to timing out after around 23 seconds (I'm testing to a machine which is not responding to ping to simulate a network failure).

I've tried setting the "mysql_connect_timeout" value as below but this seems to make no difference:

  $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:db_name:db_host:3306;mysql_connect_ti
+meout=5","username","password");

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I've also tried wrapping the code block in an alarm as below, but again this makes no difference (note the alarm function seems to work fine when I test it with other commands): 

eval {
   local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "connect timeout\n" };
   alarm 5;
   $dbHandle = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:db_name:db_host:3306","username
+","password") or die $DBI::errstr;
   alarm 0;
};

if ($@) {
   # Timed out
   die unless $@ eq "connect timeout\n";
}

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Can anyone either see any problems with this code or suggest alternative ways of doing this ?

I'm using ActiveState Perl v5.8.8 (build 822) on Win32 with DBI v1.58 and DBD-MySQL v4.005

Thanks,
Roadrunner.

In reply to How to set DBI connection timeout for Win32 Perl->MySQL ? by roadrunner

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