In general, you can't use a DBH across a fork. I don't know of any db clients where the handle will survive a fork.

You write, however,

it appears that all the children end up sharing the same DBH
How did you check for that? The good way to check would be to have your program fork, let each child open a connection, then sleep for a minute or something. During that time, log on to the database using another tool (Toad or DB-Artisan or something) and see how many connections are in your name. If the numbers agree, you're done.

Do not rebuke them with harsh words ... but rather lead them gently - with URLs - so that they may learn wisdom.

In reply to Re: Using fork with DBI to create simultaneous db connections. by VSarkiss
in thread Using fork with DBI to create simultaneous db connections. by altern8

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