On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 6:33 AM, admin <mick@mjhall.org> wrote:
> Thanks again for replies.
> I know those questions were pretty vague.
> I need to set up some methodical test scripts that replicate my problems, so
> that it is clear what is going on.
>
> There does seem to be some evidence of problems historically with PHP and
> persistent connections in PostgreSQL, on the PHP forums. The advice is
> typically to avoid them.
php and persistant connections are a foot gun for any database really.
There are very strict provisioning rules you have to follow to use
them correctly, and they are often NOT the best answer for a given
problem. Until they are. :)