Re: Persistent connections in PHP - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Hannes Dorbath
Subject Re: Persistent connections in PHP
Date
Msg-id 46C2ABF4.9060102@theendofthetunnel.de
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In response to Re: Persistent connections in PHP  ("Dmitry Koterov" <dmitry@koterov.ru>)
Responses Re: Persistent connections in PHP  (Torsten Zühlsdorff <thorny@meisterderspiele.de>)
List pgsql-general
On 14.08.2007 23:13, Dmitry Koterov wrote:
> Pconnects are absolutely necessary if we use tsearch2, because it
> initializes its dictionaries on a first query in a session. It's a very
> heavy process (500 ms and more). So, if we do not use pconnect, we waste
> about 500 ms on each DB connection. Too much pain.

We've been using pconnect for exactly the same reason. Though startup
time for our dictionary is even higher (around 2 seconds). The problem
is that persistent connections in PHP are not clean implemented, they
can get randomly garbage collected. The problem seems well known, though
I'm unaware of any fix. I think it's best to use pgbouncer and plain
connect ATM. Additionally, as mentioned earlier, using pconnect under
the Apache webserver is not a good idea at all, at least not with it's
current architecture.


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Regards,
Hannes Dorbath

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