Just a note, I've been using Postgres 7.02 and PHP 4.02 or 4.03 for about a
month in a couple sites, and haven't experienced any problems with
persistent connections. Problem might have been fixed in one of the point
releases, or maybe I just don't have enough different db connections to
trigger it.
At 02:05 PM 11/15/00, Adam Lang wrote:
>PHP 4 was having problems with persistent connections (not sure if with just
>pgsql or all dbs). Maybe that is why they didn't use it.
>
>Adam Lang
>Systems Engineer
>Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
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> >
> > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, carl garland wrote:
> >
> > # >perhaps why, even at 5 clients, the page views he shows never went
> > # >significantly above 10/sec?
> > #
> > # I think alot of it has to do with the web server/db setup not pg. They
>are
> > # using Apache/PHP and looking at their code every page has the additional
> > # overhead of making the db connection. Now if they had used AOLserver
>with
> > # its persistent db connecction pooling scheme they may have faired better
>;)
> >
> > I haven't actually looked at their code they used to test with to
> > see if they are actually using it, but Apache/PHP has the ability to do
> > persistent db connections. I would be surprised that someone like Tim (
> > who seems to have done a fair bit of php with db stuff) would not make use
> > of such a feature.
> >
> > If you can point out an example of where they are not using this
> > feature I will gladly stand corrected.
> >
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