Re: PHP and persistent connections

On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 02:48:18PM +0800, some SMTP stream spewed forth:
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> At 12:47 PM 11/24/00, GH wrote:
> >On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 03:17:59PM +1100, some SMTP stream spewed forth:
> > > Oh, and if you are using pg_close() I don't think it works
> > > in any currently released PHP4 versions. See:
> >
> >This seems to be true. I ran into some fun link errors while
> >connecting and disconnecting more than once in a script.
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> This sounds disturbing!

Maybe it should, I thought it was. Who knows.
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> How then should I go about closing persistent connections? Can I close
> them at all?

You cannot, by design and purpose, close persistent connections.
You could kill the postgres backend, but that is not quite the same. ;-)

> Would pg_close() work if I used it on non-persistent connections?

My experience has caused me to believe that no, it will not.
That is not final, as I do not have true proof.

>
> Thanks in advance,

No prob, we are here to benefit each other.

It seems like PHP would open other new connections using pg_connect(),
but would not close them. Has anyone had experiences other than this?

gh

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> Mikah
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