Re: persistent vs. non-persistent

> I'm having headaches with PHP, postgres and persistent connections.

They never have really worked for me, but I haven't tried with the recent
PHP->PGSQL improvements..

> The problem is that my postgres backends stay alive after closing the
> connection.

That's what a persistant connection is, though... You'll have as many
minimum PG backends hanging around as you do minimum apache backends (once
that many PG backends get started, they hang around).

> I use pg_pconnect to connect to the database, put after closing the
> conection, nothing happens, la backend stays alive, and all I can do is
> restart apache to make them close (really close).
>
> Any solution to this?

Sure, don't use persistant connections..It sounds like they're the opposite
of what you want...

-Mitch