pconnect and apache processes

Ok, somebody here should know the answer to this one. I picked up a rumor I'm hoping is not true. I've heard that when an apache process opens a pconnect() connection to MySQL, only that specific process is able to continue with that connection, and any other processes must make a new connection on their own. This is unsettling considering the chance for a http request catching the same apache process is 1-out- of-1000 for a project I'm working on with multiple load sharing servers. I thought that any process could reattain a connection as long as the database, username, and password were the same as an already-opened connection. Hmmm. -Quinn