Re: PG on a web-server...issues..and some general questions on PG deployment

I understand what Tom is saying though.  I guess whenever someone asks about
connection pooling, it is not a yes or no answer.  You have to explain the
difference. :)

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Clark, Joel" <jclark@lendingtree.com>
To: "'Tom Samplonius'" <tom@sdf.com>; "Adam Lang"
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Cc: <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 2:33 PM
Subject: RE: [INTERFACES] PG on a web-server...issues..and some general
questions on PG deployment


> I think you get a persistent connection per httpd process, no?  If this
> really is the case, you could then limit your connection count by limiting
> the number of times that apache will spawn a new process (10 is default,
> IIRC)  This isn't exactly true pooling, but should be flexible enough to
> meet the intent...  :)
>
> Joel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Samplonius [mailto:tom@sdf.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 11:39 AM
> To: Adam Lang
> Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] PG on a web-server...issues..and some general
> questions on PG deployment
>
>
>
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Adam Lang wrote:
>
> > > 3. Is PHP/Postgres module capable of server side connection pooling?
> >
> > Yes.
>
>   The PHP docs are very clear to not referr to it is pooling, but
> persistant connections.  They are very different things.  PHP as a whole
> is not capable of pooling, because a separate instance of PHP runs in each
> httpd process, and those instances can not shared database connections
> between them.
>
> Tom