At 09:03 AM 12/30/04, Matthew Terenzio wrote:
>>On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 00:20 -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
>>>"Gavin M. Roy" <gmr@ehpg.net> writes:
>>>
>>>>I use it on a few very high traffic sites without issue, but it is tuned so
>>>>that there is only 1 persistant connection per apache backend and
>>>>postgresql
>>>>will allow the max apache backends, which by default is generally 256. I
>>>>highly recommend it in such a situation, while I generally do not recommend
>>>>it in any other.
>
>So if I have one Postgres installation but two databases, is it possible
>that PHP would create twice as many persistant connections as apache
>childs? This may be where my understanding went awry.
Exactly right. But consider that if you used one username in connect
string for read only access and a different username for admin updates, the
number of persistent connections would double again!
