Re: PostgreSQL and PHP persistent connections

On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 02:12:26PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Thies, we talked at LinuxWorld about improving the reliability of
> persistent PostgreSQL connections in PHP.
>
> I believe the problem is that persistent connections sometime do not
> pass clean sessions because of open transactions and SET changes to the
> session.
>
> We discussed using 'ROLLBACK' before passing a connection to a new user,
> but the problem was that ROLLBACK with no open transaction causes a
> server log error message. We discussed adding 'ROLLBACK SILENT' to fix
> this, but I believe a better, more portable solution is a simple "BEGIN
> WORK;ROLLBACK". This will do nothing if there is no open transaction,
> and will ROLLBACK any open transaction. I propose this be sent by PHP
> as the first query when passing persistent connections.

was there a conclusion made yet (that i missed somehow) on
this subject? i'd like to implement *something* in the PHP
core for this soon.

regards,
tc