If you are using HDBC-mysql or HDBC-odbc to access MySQL databases, you may have run into problems with your programs failing due to connection errors. In this blog posting, I describe what's happening and how to work around it:

http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2010/09/04/dealing-with-fragile-c-libraries-e-g-mysql-from-haskell/

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