Re: Postgres Pg_connect PHP

[Vyacheslav Kalinin <vka@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Vyacheslav Kalinin <vka@xxxxxxxx> writes:

>  $conn = pg_pconnect("dbname=foo");

Please reconsider and use plain pg_connect().
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dim

Uh, I just copied/pasted that part from somewhere in PHP manual, personally I tend to use plain pg_connect and pgbouncer for pooling when needed.

For those curious why pconnect is not the best option for connection pooling - discussion on this topic rises in this list from time to time, check this out, for instance:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-08/msg00660.php