Re: [RFC] [Discussion] Minimum supported versions for PHP 8.6
| From: | Eric Norris | Date: | Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:03:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] [Discussion] Minimum supported versions for PHP 8.6 | ||
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On Fri, Jul 3, 2026 at 7:32 AM <go.al.ni@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Is this true?
>
> It's not true. Sorry about that. Script didn't crash.
>
> But something worse happened.
>
> I took sources from
>
> https://github.com/ericnorris/php-src/archive/refs/heads/feat-mysqlnd-com-reset-connection.zip
> Configured them with `--enable-mysqlnd --enable-fpm
> --with-fpm-user=www-data --with-fpm-group=www-data --enable-pdo
> --with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd`
> Up mysql 5.5.61.
> Started php-fpm with
pm = static and gzdD¼
> ‹+öœ:q{Úì†pm.max_children = 1.
> Ran this script:
>
> ```php
> <?php
> $pdo = new PDO('mysql:host=172.17.0.1', 'root', '',
> [PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT => true]);
> $q = $pdo->query('SHOW PROCESSLIST');
> $rows = 0;
> while ($f = $q->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
> $rows++;
> }
> echo $rows . PHP_EOL;
> ```
>
> On the first execution script echoes 1. On the second - 2. Each
> execution increments the counter by one. When I restart the php-fpm
> process, the counter restarts again from 1. There is connection leak
> here!
>
> When I removed PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT, the counter stop
> increasing.
> When I switched to mysql 8, counter was always 1 (both with and
> without persistent connections).
Thank you for identifying a connection leak; I have identified the
cause and I'm considering how to address it. That said, I don't
believe this is inherent to the RFC, instead I would consider this a
bug in my implementation.