Re: persistent db connections in PHP - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: persistent db connections in PHP
Date
Msg-id 467A9A23.2020100@g2switchworks.com
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In response to Re: persistent db connections in PHP  (Raymond O'Donnell <rod@iol.ie>)
List pgsql-general
Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
>
> lawpoop@gmail.com wrote:
>> However, with this new Postgres site, I don't have access to my temp
>> tables after I've traversed another pg_connect. So PHP is either
>> creating a new connection, or giving me another session, not the one
>> which I created my tables in.
>
> You wouldn't expect to be given back the same connection (and hence
> the same temp tables) from a pool of connections - they're returned
> randomly.
>
> Scott Marlowe wrote:
>> MySQL reuses old connections within the same script.  PostgreSQL's
>> php extension does not, it starts a new connection each time.
>
> Isn't pg_pconnect supposed to recycle a pooled connection?

I wasn't speaking of pg_pconnect.  I was speaking of mysql_connect and
pg_connect.


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