Sara Leavitt wrote:
Hi, We are about to convert all of our queries using mysql_pconnect to prepared statements using PDO database connections. It will take some time to convert the hundreds of SQL statements so the plan is to do it in phases. Is it a bad idea to have both a mysql_pconnect and a PDO connection open for the same application? Will this doubling of our database connections for every page hit degrade performance? Any tips on the best way to transition to PDO/prepared statements with minimal disruption?
One thing to be careful is if you are relying on 'transactions' to handle anything. Obviously the transaction has to be in the same connection just to work. Despite what others have said, the PDO connection will be different to the generic mysql connection as it is a separate process. Persistent connections will only reuse an already open connection, you can't connect two processes to the same connection. You would not know which process was accessing things.
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