persistent vs. non-persistent

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

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

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?

I'm on Solairs, Apache 1.3.14, PHP 4.0.6, PostgreSQL 7.1.2, I have persistent 
connections enabled in PHP, and a max of 3 persistent connections.

Saludos... :-)

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Porqué usar una base de datos relacional cualquiera,
si podés usar PostgreSQL?
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Martín Marqués                  |        mmarques@unl.edu.ar
Programador, Administrador, DBA |       Centro de Telematica
                       Universidad Nacional
                            del Litoral
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