You don't do anything different. For the most part, persistent connections are a "man behind the curtain" thing. PHP and Apache handle the details of reusing connections. You just tell it to pgconnect and it does the checking for you and decides if it needs to build a new connection or not. I don't like to call it this, but you might understand it better if you think of "pooling" (even though it really isn't pooling). Each Apache child will have its own pool of db connections to reuse. From page to page, there is no guarantee you will get the same connection. Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company http://www.rutgersinsurance.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Ruprecht" <chrup999@xxxxxxxxx> To: <pgsql-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 11:02 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] persistent vs. non-persistent > Brent, > > given, that you keep the connection open indefinitely, how do you use it? > > Do I go and $db = pg_pconnect(...); when I first start apache and then never > do a connect again, unless I re-start apache? How would I query if a > connection already exists? > > Best regards, > Chris
