Re: Perl DBD and an alarming problem

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> I am mystified by the behavior of "alarm" in conjunction with
> Postgres/perl/DBD. Here is roughly what I'm doing:

> Anyone have a clue what's going on and/or how I can fix it?

Not really, but alarm has never worked well (or claimed to) with
DBI. The DBI docs recommend trying out Sys::Sigaction:

http://search.cpan.org/~lbaxter/Sys-SigAction/

> A secondary question: It appears that $sth->cancel() is not
> implemented in the Pg DBD module. Is that true?

Correct. DBD::Pg does not support asynchronous connections. It's
possible it may in the future, but there has not been much of a
perceived need. Feel free to enter a request on CPAN:

http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=DBD-Pg

There may be another way around it, if you can tell us some more
about what exactly it is you are trying to do.

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