In actual fact it is possible for the connect to fail but connect not to die and no error to be output but you have to go out of your way to do it. You have to call connect properly but with RaiseError => 0 and PrintError => 0.

I:\svn\dbd-odbc\trunk>perl -le "use DBI; my $h = eval {DBI->connect('d
+bi:ODBC:in
validsn', 'fred', 'fred', {RaiseError => 0, PrintError => 0})}; print 
+'error' .
$@ if $@;print $h->ping;"
Can't call method "ping" on an undefined value at -e line 1.

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If you do not disable RaiseError (legitimately) but disable PrintError then connect will not die as RaiseError is off by default and no error will be output:

I:\svn\dbd-odbc\trunk>perl -le "use DBI; my $h = eval {DBI->connect('d
+bi:ODBC:in
validsn', 'fred', 'fred', {PrintError => 0})}; print 'error' . $@ if $
+@;print $h
->ping;"
Can't call method "ping" on an undefined value at -e line 1.

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So for the connect method you should always set RaiseError and be sure connect is called correctly or test the return status of connect. To be honest, I'd be surprised to see a call to connect without a check for the return status but I've been surprised before.

In reply to Re^6: DBI not erroring out on Insert by mje
in thread DBI not erroring out on Insert by rethaew

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