How do I ping a connection?

[Angelo Dipierro]

Hi all,

my app needs a "persistent" connection to the db, so I was thinking to do 
something like this

1. connect to the db at program entry
2. before each db access call ping() to check the connection and possibly
    reconnect
3. close the connection when the program ends.

The only problem is that I can't access mysqlpp::Connection.ping(), the 
linker complains about an unresolved symbol, and in the source code there's 
no MYSQLPP_EXPORT in front of ping(), so I guess I shouldn't even try to 
call it :-)

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.
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