perl module stability

[Igor Sysoev]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:40:14AM +0530, Arvind Jayaprakash wrote:

> On Aug 23, Igor Sysoev wrote:
> >On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 08:13:03AM +0530, Arvind Jayaprakash wrote:
> >
> >> The English wiki says the embedded perl module is highly experimental
> >> followed by a lot of warnings. Is this still true?
> >
> >Currently it's not highly experimental: we and some other use it in
> >production. However, you should not try to work with other servers or
> >databases in perl handler, because waiting on remote server/database
> >response blocks other connections handling.
> 
> Would it be fair to say that for as long as the perl fragment is
> running, no other connection will be processed for a given worker?
> 
> Hence, do not use it if you don't know what you are doing.

Yes.


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