> Are you sure? Doesn't the httpd child process close the active connection > if the database/username pair is different, before opening a new one? > On a db with say 10000 different users, the usage of pconnect() may > potentially lead to 10000 * B open connections (thus postgres backends), > most of those completely useless... > > ... some thinking ... > > no, I was wrong: > > pgsql.max_persistent integer > The maximum number of persistent Postgres connections per process. > ^^^^^^^^^^^ See the big argument I had with the PHP developers with regards to the crapness of their persistent connection implementation for Postgres: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=13463 I still don't think the guy has any idea what I'm talking about, and they've filed my report as 'bogus'. Very annoying... Chris