Changes from 0.33:
0.35 Sun Jun 10 16:36:07 EST 2007
- Add checking of PID in database handles to prevent trouble
in forked environments (Perrin Harkins and Sam Tregar)
0.34 Mon Sep 5 09:10:37 UTC 2005
- Remove Class::WhiteHole from PREREQs (Alexey Tourbin)
Ima::DBI attempts to organize and facilitate caching and more
efficient use of database connections and statement handles.
One of the things I always found annoying about writing large
programs with DBI was making sure that I didn't have duplicate
database handles open. I was also annoyed by the somewhat wasteful
nature of the prepare/execute/finish route I'd tend to go through
in my subroutines. The new DBI->connect_cached and DBI->prepare_cached
helped alot, but I still had to throw around global datasource,
username and password information.
So, after a while I grew a small library of DBI helper routines
and techniques. Ima::DBI is the culmination of all this, put into
a nice(?), clean(?) class to be inherited from.
