Re: [PHP4BETA] Database Connection Pooling

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Manuel Lemos wrote: > Hello Alessandro, > > On 28-Feb-00 16:20:24, you wrote: > > >I'd like to know if anyone have plans to code a Database Connection > >Pooling module to PHP. > > Gee, AFAIK that exists from a very long time ago, except that it is called > persistent connections. Look in the manual for connection establishment functions > and their persistent counterparts like mysql_connect and mysql_pconnect, > OCINLogon and OCIPLogon, etc... > > AFAIK all supported databases have functions to establish persistent > connections. They work on a per server process basis. That means > persistent connections are kept until a server process lives, and > each server process manages their own pool of persistent connections. Manuel, Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups. While PHP does support persistent connections, those are per Apache process. What it needs is a common connection pool for all Apache processes. -Andrei Complexity in the mind is not caused by learning; learning is caused by complexity in the mind. -- Steven Pinker