On 07/03/2008, Joshua D. Drake <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > A bit of poking around with ps and lsof showed me that a PHP > > application I closed days ago (no browser open) was still active > > tying up backend sessions; the problem went away when I > > restarted my apache. Is this "normal behaviour"? How do I > > deal with it under normal circumstance, am I just supposed > > to increase the number of allowed connections and not worry > > about apache holding sessions open even after the "client" > > has long gone? > It depends on how you are connecting. For example if you are doing this: > > PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT => true > > Then... yeah :). You really shouldn't use a language layer for > persistent connections though. Use pgbouncer or pgpool. Thanks Joshua. It was indeed set to true; I was playing with the "hatshop" database and application from the "Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL E-Commerce" Apress book. And found that config.php has "define('DB_PERSISTENCY', 'true');". Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. > Joshua D. Drake Cheers, Andrej -- Please don't top post, and don't use HTML e-Mail :} Make your quotes concise. http://www.american.edu/econ/notes/htmlmail.htm -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general