Re: [PHP4BETA] Databases and multithreading

"Thies C. Arntzen" wrote: > > > nope - as plist is per-thread as well. > Just to clarify things: Does this mean plist is not really persistent and all data is lost after request shutdown? > > this should not really be an issue - question is if the db-libs are > thread-save and if they like to be initialized multiple times. > > if we want connection-pooling we need to think about something different > which can share data between threads. > Yes, there should be a central instance that hands out connections and handles concurrency - as aolserver does. We have to change the whole database connection mechanism or implement some clever list-based mechanism, which would minimize the impact on the various database modules. -Andreas