Re: persistent db connections in PHP

Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
>
> lawpoop@gmail.com wrote:
>> However, with this new Postgres site, I don't have access to my temp
>> tables after I've traversed another pg_connect. So PHP is either
>> creating a new connection, or giving me another session, not the one
>> which I created my tables in.
>
> You wouldn't expect to be given back the same connection (and hence
> the same temp tables) from a pool of connections - they're returned
> randomly.
>
> Scott Marlowe wrote:
>> MySQL reuses old connections within the same script.  PostgreSQL's
>> php extension does not, it starts a new connection each time.
>
> Isn't pg_pconnect supposed to recycle a pooled connection?

I wasn't speaking of pg_pconnect.  I was speaking of mysql_connect and
pg_connect.