On Lun 01 Oct 2001 18:46, you wrote: > > I'm having headaches with PHP, postgres and persistent connections. > > They never have really worked for me, but I haven't tried with the recent > PHP->PGSQL improvements.. > > > The problem is that my postgres backends stay alive after closing the > > connection. > > That's what a persistant connection is, though... You'll have as many > minimum PG backends hanging around as you do minimum apache backends (once > that many PG backends get started, they hang around). > > > 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? > > Sure, don't use persistant connections..It sounds like they're the opposite > of what you want... I've been all day looking for solid info on this case, and what I thought is this: Is there a way to seek for open db connections? I don't understand why apache (or PHP) doesn't see that it has a persistent database connection open to use. I'm checking the PHP PGSQL extensions at this moment. More info later.... Saludos.... ;-) -- Porqué usar una base de datos relacional cualquiera, si podés usar PostgreSQL? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Martín Marqués | mmarques@xxxxxxxxxx Programador, Administrador, DBA | Centro de Telematica Universidad Nacional del Litoral -----------------------------------------------------------------