Hi, monks!

I've got a server which listen()s on a certain port and then fork()s off a new process for every accept()ed connection.
Each child process then reads X number of bytes from the socket, checks data for validity and then writes everything to the database (Oracle).

In the current implementation, each child process does its own $dbh = DBI->connect($source, $uname, $auth, \%attr); thing and I have a feeling that this slows things down dramatically...

So, my question is:

Is there a way to share the same database connection among multiple processes ?

For instance, can I do the following?

...
my $dbh = DBI->connect($source, $uname, $auth, \%attr);

while(1){

##########################
# accept() code goes here
##########################

 my $cid = fork();
 if (defined $cid){
    if ($cid == 0){
       my $statement = q!a SQL statement goes here!;
       my $sth = $dbh->prepare($statement);
       $rv = $sth->execute;
       
       ... etc ...       

       exit 0;
    }
 }else{
    # handle the error
 }
...

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What will happen in case when multiple processes try to use their copies of $dbh at the same time?

Any input is greately appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

In reply to Sharing a database handle over multiple processes by Anonymous Monk

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