Re: cvs: /php3 ChangeLog

Hey, I said I'll do it already :) On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > Hu? That is your proposol #2, disabling mysql_change_user() > > for persistent connections. > > I realize that. And my #1 was to just yank the > function. mysql_change_user() would be useful to just about exactly 0 > people if it could only act on non-persistent connections. > > The whole purpose of the change_user() function and why Monty added it to > MySQL was to allow people to use persistent connections on a shared > server. The change_user() function would be called implicitly on a > mysql_pconnect() so even a site with 1000 different mysql users accessing > different databases could re-use a single persistent mysql connection. > > The user-level mysql_change_user() function I put in isn't all that > useful, but I wanted to test that it worked and figured it didn't hurt to > give people access to it. The useful part is integrating it into > pconnect. > > I like the approach of simply removing the username/password from the > hashed-details and always doing a change_user() on a pconnect. That > shouldn't be hard to do and I will take a whack at it today. > > -Rasmus > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > -- ----------------------------------------------------- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/