A promising new turn...

In the main Noosphere module in the subroutine handler, I've replaced the connection condition block to just a simple connection. So ~ line 430 I replaced

unless ($dbh ||= dbConnect()) {
die "Couldn't open database: ",$DBI::errstr;
}
with just

$dbh = dbConnect();

I'm really not sure what ||= is suppose to do, maybe I need to test a similar expression. The following test was made

#!/usr/bin/perl

$test = -1;
unless ($test ||= connect1())
{ die "Die connect1";
}
print "After connect1\n";
print ("$test\n");
$test = -2;
unless ($test ||= connect2())
{ die "Die connect2";
}

print "After connect2\n";
print ("$test\n");

sub connect1()
{
return 1;
}
sub connect2()
{
return 0;
}

The output of running the above perl script is:

After connect1
-1
After connect2
-2

So we observe a few things. The unless statement always evaluates false. If $test is initialized to 1 then the die statement is printed.
- so what seems to happen is that an OR is evaluated on $test and on = Connect1. So if $dbh is true before the statement (so database handle is still true?) then it dies
- what is interesting is that it does not matter what connect returns, it always evaluates to false so this statement completely depends on $dbh

I'm not sure if this is the intended behavior or if it has anything to do with losing the connection with the database. I need some feedback from someone with perl wisdom. However, it seems very promising that the database connection stays 'on'.