Howdy bros. I have written the following sub to take an object and insert its contents into MySQL via DBI using placeholders: 
sub insertsql {
    my ($dbh,$table,$data) = @_;
    my @qm;
    my @keys;
    my @values;
    my $i = -1;
    foreach my $k (keys %$data) {
    $i++;
    $keys[$i] = $k;
    $values[$i] = $data->{$k};
    $qm[$i] = '?';
    }
    my $keylist = join(",",@keys);
    my $qlist = join(",",@qm);
    my $sqlstatement = "insert into $table ($keylist) values ($qlist)"
+;
    my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sqlstatement);
    $sth->execute(@values) || die "Could not execute MySQL statement: 
+$sqlstatement";
    $sth->finish();
    return $dbh->{'mysql_insertid'};
}

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This has worked fine for me for some time, but lately I have encountered situations where when I execute the sub, the whole Perl script containing it goes directly to exit, no error message, nothing--just ends. I have determined in one case this happened when one of the values that was supposed to be in @values was null.

But my question is, why does it just stop rather than DIEing on the $sth->execute method and giving me the specified error message? That would make it a whole lot easier to find and correct the offending input. Have I not set it up right somehow?

TIA...Steve

In reply to DBI sudden exit on MySQL insert by cormanaz

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