On Wed, 5 May 2004, Rod Taylor wrote:
> > And, of course, most development environments (perl, php, java etc)
> > have their own language specific connection pooling solutions.
>
> Yes, the one for php is what I was thinking of when I made my statement.
> They work on a per backend basis as Apache does not allow for the type
> of communication between processes that would otherwise be required. A
> connection created by Apache backend A cannot be used by Apache backend
> B.
>
> Java is an example where it is done well, but the language decision was
> made long before I joined the firm.
>
> I cannot tell if mod_pg_pool works across Apache forked backends or is
> still bound to a single process. They state it is intended for sharing
> connections across modules, so it is probably still backend specific.
Have you looked at sqlrealy.sourceforge.net? IT looks like it might do
what you need.
