Release connections in MODPERL

How do we tell Postgresql, in PERL (specifically under modperl) to
shutdown and release the database handler?

basically what's happening is that the system is opening up a new handle
and holding onto it with each hit to the server until we run out of
available database connections

normally in PERL it shuts it down when the perl goes away, but in mod
perl, it doesn't go away

-duck

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