On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 6:33 AM, admin <mick@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. :)