NAME

       DBD::Gofer::Transport::stream - DBD::Gofer transport for stdio streaming

SYNOPSIS

         DBI->connect('dbi:Gofer:transport=stream;url=ssh:username@host.example.com;dsn=dbi:...',...)

       or, enable by setting the DBI_AUTOPROXY environment variable:

         export DBI_AUTOPROXY='dbi:Gofer:transport=stream;url=ssh:username@host.example.com'

DESCRIPTION

       Without the "url=" parameter it launches a subprocess as

         perl -MDBI::Gofer::Transport::stream -e run_stdio_hex

       and feeds requests into it and reads responses from it. But that's not very useful.

       With a "url=ssh:username@host.example.com" parameter it uses ssh to launch the subprocess
       on a remote system. That's much more useful!

       It gives you secure remote access to DBI databases on any system you can login to.  Using
       ssh also gives you optional compression and many other features (see the ssh manual for
       how to configure that and many other options via ~/.ssh/config file).

       The actual command invoked is something like:

         ssh -xq ssh:username@host.example.com bash -c $setup $run

       where $run is the command shown above, and $command is

         . .bash_profile 2>/dev/null || . .bash_login 2>/dev/null || . .profile 2>/dev/null; exec "$@"

       which is trying (in a limited and fairly unportable way) to setup the environment (PATH,
       PERL5LIB etc) as it would be if you had logged in to that system.

       The ""perl"" used in the command will default to the value of $^X when not using ssh.  On
       most systems that's the full path to the perl that's currently executing.

PERSISTENCE

       Currently gofer stream connections persist (remain connected) after all database handles
       have been disconnected. This makes later connections in the same process very fast.

       Currently up to 5 different gofer stream connections (based on url) can persist.  If more
       than 5 are in the cache when a new connection is made then the cache is cleared before
       adding the new connection. Simple but effective.

TO DO

       Document go_perl attribute

       Automatically reconnect (within reason) if there's a transport error.

       Decide on default for persistent connection - on or off? limits? ttl?

AUTHOR

       Tim Bunce, <http://www.tim.bunce.name>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2007, Tim Bunce, Ireland. All rights reserved.

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

SEE ALSO

       DBD::Gofer::Transport::Base

       DBD::Gofer