FreeTDS Development Group

[Darryl Friesen <Darryl.Friesen AT usask.ca>]

> Brian,
> what does then www.php.net mean with its documentation of
> the "sybase_pconnect()" function:
> -->
> First, when connecting, the function would first try to find a
> (persistent) link that's already open with the same host, username
> and password. If one is found, an identifier for it will be returned
> instead of opening a new connection.
>
> Second, the connection to the SQL server will not be closed when the
> execution of the script ends. Instead, the link will remain open for
> future use (sybase_close() will not close links established by
> sybase_pconnect()()).
> <--
> Thus, if there's NO (persistant)connection ONE will be established.
> If there's ONE, no additional will be opened.
> So how would you establish more than ONE connection, only using
> sybase_pconnect()??


As someone mentioned already, I think this is per Apache process.  If I do
"ps -ef | grep httpd" I see (right now) 14 Apache processes running.  Each
can have one connection per host/user/password.


- Darryl

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  Darryl Friesen, B.Sc., Programmer/Analyst    Darryl.Friesen AT usask.ca
  Education & Research Technology Services,     http://gollum.usask.ca/
  Department of Computing Services,
  University of Saskatchewan
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