[Catalyst] do I need to load Apache::DBI?

[Jonathan T. Rockway]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 06:19:09PM -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> On 7/30/07, Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk> wrote:
> > I used to consider it a neat hack. After some time with the internals,
> > some fun explicitly disabling it within DBIC since it sometimes broke
> > our reconnect code, and even then discovering I could often solve
> > client mod_perl problems by removing the line that loaded it from
> > httpd.conf, I reclassified it was 'awful'.
>
> Your implication is that Apache::DBI doesn't work, as opposed to
> simply clashing with some of the DBIC code that tries to manage the
> same connections.  It works just fine.  It's widely-used and does what
> it was intended to without known bugs.

I think mst's point was "if you don't know why to use Apache::DBI,
don't use it".  Generally good advice.

Regards,
Jonathan Rockway