Apache::DBI claims that it will reconnect to a database if it's gone away. DBD::Pg claims that it supports the ping method. However, when I restart my database server while apache2 is running, all mod_perl pages that are database driven return internal server errors, no matter how many times I refresh, with errors like this: [Fri Jan 13 23:46:28 2006] [error] [client 192.168.99.112] DBD::Pg::db prepare_cached failed: FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command\nserver closed the connection unexpectedly\n\tThis probably means the server terminated abnormally\n\tbefore or while processing the request. Here's what I'm using: DBI - 1.48 DBD::Pg - 1.42 mod_perl2 - 2.000001 Apache::DBI - 0.9901 Has anybody run into this before? Any known workarounds/config changes I need? Thanks, Tyler