Re^3: Carp not working after change to objects

[snoopy]

Sorry this didn't help.

Btw, I'm not able exactly replicate your error with my Sqlite driver. My prepare statement on an unknown table returns undef, not a valid statement handle.

my $sth = $dbh1->prepare("insert into guff values (1,2,3)")
  or croak "prepare error"  # dies here for me

If you're not raising errors, be aware that prepare may return undef.

Also consider localisd error handling. You still has the option of dieing or continuing:

my $dbh = DBI->connect(... ,{RaiseError => 1});

do {
    local $SIG{__ERROR__} = \&my_handler;
    # database code
}