Move --log-dsn vars to outter scope to fix the rare Perl 5.8 scope-closure bug.

bin/pt-kill

@@ -6772,7 +6772,7 @@ sub main {
    }
 
    # Set up --log-dsn if specified.
-   my ($log, $log_sth);
+   my ($log, $log_sql, $log_sth, $log_cxn);
    my @processlist_columns = qw(
       Id User Host db Command
       Time State Info Time_ms
@@ -6783,7 +6783,7 @@ sub main {
       die "--log-dsn does not specify a database (D) "
         . "or a database-qualified table (t)"
          unless defined $table && defined $db;
-      my $log_cxn   = Cxn->new(
+      $log_cxn = Cxn->new(
          dsn_string   => ($dp->get_cxn_params($log_dsn))[0],
          NAME_lc      => 0,
          DSNParser    => $dp,
@@ -6817,13 +6817,13 @@ sub main {
       PTDEBUG && _d($sql);
       my ($server_id) = $dbh->selectrow_array($sql);
 
-      $sql = "INSERT INTO $log_table ("
+      $log_sql = "INSERT INTO $log_table ("
            . join(", ", @all_log_columns)
            . ") VALUES("
            . join(", ", $server_id, ("?") x (@all_log_columns-1))
            . ")";
       PTDEBUG && _d($sql);
-      $log_sth = $log_dbh->prepare($sql); 
+      $log_sth = $log_dbh->prepare($log_sql); 
 
       my $retry = Retry->new();
 
@@ -6831,7 +6831,7 @@ sub main {
          my (@params) = @_;
          PTDEBUG && _d('Logging values:', @params);
          return $retry->retry(
-            tries => 20,
+            tries => 3,
             wait  => sub { sleep 3; },
             try   => sub { return $log_sth->execute(@params); },
             fail  => sub {
@@ -6843,10 +6843,13 @@ sub main {
                     || $error =~ m/Lost connection to MySQL server/ ) {
                   eval {
                      $log_dbh = $log_cxn->connect();
-                     $log_sth = $log_dbh->prepare( $sql );
+                     $log_sth = $log_dbh->prepare($log_sql);
                      msg('Reconnected to ' . $cxn->name());
                   };
-                  return 1 unless $EVAL_ERROR; # try again
+                  if ( $EVAL_ERROR ) {
+                     warn "Fail code failed: $EVAL_ERROR";
+                  }
+                  return 1; # retry
                }
                return 0; # call final_fail
             },

t/pt-kill/kill.t

@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ if ( !$dbh ) {
 }
 
 my $output;
-my $cnf='/tmp/12345/my.sandbox.cnf';
+my $dsn = $sb->dsn_for('master');
+my $cnf = '/tmp/12345/my.sandbox.cnf';
 
 # TODO:  These tests need something to match, so we background
 # a SLEEP(4) query and match that, but this isn't ideal because
@@ -318,6 +319,34 @@ is(
    "Different --log-dsn runs reuse the same table."
 );
 
+
+# --log-dsn and --daemonize
+
+$dbh->do("DELETE FROM kill_test.log_table");
+$sb->wait_for_slaves();
+
+my $pid_file = "/tmp/pt-kill-test.$PID";
+my $log_file = "/tmp/pt-kill-test-log.$PID";
+diag(`rm -f $pid_file $log_file >/dev/null 2>&1`);
+
+my $slave2_dbh = $sb->get_dbh_for('slave2');
+my $slave2_dsn = $sb->dsn_for('slave2');
+
+system($sys_cmd);
+sleep 0.5;
+
+system("$trunk/bin/pt-kill $dsn --daemonize --run-time 1 --kill-query --interval 1 --match-info 'select sleep' --log-dsn $slave2_dsn,D=kill_test,t=log_table --pid $pid_file --log $log_file");
+PerconaTest::wait_for_files($pid_file);         # start
+# ...                                           # run
+PerconaTest::wait_until(sub { !-f $pid_file});  # stop
+
+$results = $slave2_dbh->selectall_arrayref("SELECT * FROM kill_test.log_table");
+
+ok(
+   scalar @$results,
+   "--log-dsn --daemonize (bug 1209436)"
+) or diag(Dumper($results));
+
 $dbh->do("DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS kill_test");
 
 PerconaTest::wait_until(
@@ -333,4 +362,3 @@ PerconaTest::wait_until(
 $sb->wipe_clean($dbh);
 ok($sb->ok(), "Sandbox servers") or BAIL_OUT(__FILE__ . " broke the sandbox");
 done_testing;
-exit;