Oraperl / DBD / Perl5 Performance for Oracle query?

[Quoted] I've recently come on board a web project that uses the Oraperl emulation interface for DBD. The performance is horrible, a query that returns in 4-5 seconds from sqlplus takes 50 seconds, This is just to do the "fetch" without calling any cgi scripts.

The documentation hints at a "cache value" that one can set but then goes on to say that it not implemented yet. I should point out that the query is trival and just brings back a lot (about 1000) small rows (1 field) from Oracle.

I think we are using the latest version of the emulation (I think DBD version 0.90).

Any ideas?
Is this a known problem with the DBD - Oraperl emulation? Any workarounds?

thanks,

Mark

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