[WindyCity-pm] perl failover scripts?

[Joshua McAdams]

> I was hoping for input as to whether or not this is a viable strategy.  Is
> there a drawback that I'm missing?  Any Input, Pro or  Con would be greatly
> appreciated  as this is unchartered territory for me.

What version of MySQL are you using?  There might be failover
protection that you can implement at the database level that would do
the trick.