On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 02:00:15AM +0000, Jeremy Nixon wrote: > Tyler MacDonald <tyler@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > [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 > > Here's the thing: if your database connection goes away, and Apache::DBI > opens a new one, any prepared statement handles you might have become > invalid, because prepared statements are per-connection. > > My way around it is to not use prepared statements. Another, better, way is to use prepare_cached() along with connect_cached(). http://search.cpan.org/src/TIMB/DBI_AdvancedTalk_2004/sld029.htm and later slides. Tim.