[rt-users] Slightly off-topic

[Bill Cole]

On 12 Jun 2012, at 16:26, Paul Tomblin wrote:

> I have a need to access information in another database simultaneously
> to the , so I cloned RT::Handle.pm into my own RTx::FooBar::Handle
> that access the other database.  Now I'm testing this on my Linux box
> and everything is running fine, but I copied it over to my MacBook Pro
> in order to demo it to a client, but Postgres is complaining that it's
> running out of database handles.  So I added a DESTROY method to my
> RTx::FooBar::Handle that does a $self->dbh->disconnect.  I stuck a
> call to $RT::Logger->debug in that DESTROY method just to make sure.
> On the Linux box, it's definitely getting called and the debug is
> printing out, but I wasn't running out of handles there so I don't
> know if that's helping matters.  On the Mac, either it's not getting
> called or the logger isn't working, and it's running out of handles
> still.  Any suggestions?


Maybe http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/ could be helpful? 
Maybe not. It isn't clear to me what exactly you mean by "Postgres 
complaining that it's running out of database handles" as that doesn't 
sound much like any complaint I've seen from Postgres.

It may be relevant that the MacOS Perl environment is rather lame by 
default, so if you haven't built an alternative Perl environment you may 
be working with some Perl modules that are outdated or have been given 
some special Apple touch so that they aren't quite like they should be.