[Wikitech-l] Tell MW not to share extension's db connection

Hi all -

I'm writing an analytics package for MediaWiki and am running into an issue where even though my extension creates a separate mysql connection, MW is catching the DB errors and throwing up its stack trace.

I'm running php 4.4.2 and MW 1.6.3.

It appears that MW is trying to use the mysql connection that my extension has established. a quick look at the MW database.php suggests that this might be an optimization.

Could anyone provide some guidance on how to best avoid this if you are writing an extension that needs to make a mysql connection?

Thanks,

-P-

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