Nope, we totally rewrote it... Not using Apache::DBI anymore...

package DBH;
use strict;
use Init;
use DBI ();

sub connect {
    if (defined $DBH::conn) {#die ref( $DBH::conn);
        my $ret;
    eval {
            $ret = DBH->ping;
        };
        if (!$@ && $ret) {
            return $DBH::conn;
        }
    }
  
    $debug && print STDERR "DBH.pm: making new connection\n";
    $DBH::conn = DBI->connect(
        "DBI:mysql:blah,
    {
            PrintError => 1,
            RaiseError => 0,
        }
    ) || die $DBI::errstr; #Assume application handles this
      return $DBH::conn;
  }

sub ping {
    my $ret = 0;

    if (time - $DBI::lastPing < 10) {    
         return 1;
    }
    
    eval {
        local $SIG{__DIE__}  = sub { return (0); };
        local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub { return (0); };
        # adapt the select statement to your database:
        $ret = $DBH::conn->do('select 1');
        $DBI::lastPing = time;    #record time in seconds
        };
    $debug && print STDERR "DBH.pm: pinging DB handle: $ret\n";
    return ($@) ? 0 : $ret;
    }
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