ID: 13463
Updated by: yohgaki
Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Status: Bogus
Bug Type: PostgreSQL related
Operating System: FreeBSD 4.4
PHP Version: 4.0.6
New Comment:

I understand your problem, but I think resuing existing connection that has  different 
connection parameter will be a cause of hard to find bug or even a security hole.

Older PostgreSQL accepts really few number of connections. 7.1.x supports upto 1024 
connections by default (You need to edit postgresql.conf)   I suggest to upgrade your 
server....

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Yasuo Ohgaki

Previous Comments:
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[2001-12-05 21:48:49] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Yes, but my point is that imagine this situation:

40 different usernames for the database
32 maximum connections to the database

It doesn't take much to figure out what's going to happen.  As soon as the first 32 
usernames to be used have created persistent connections, the further 8 usernames can 
never pconnect -> and remember, that doesn't take into account the fact that there are 
multiple PHP processes running.

So, what I am suggesting is that once all 32 connections are being used and PHP then 
attempts to use a 33rd username, instead of refusing to open the connection you should 
destroy the least recently used persistent connection.  This could be inefficient, but 
at least it won't lock PHP out of Postgres.

Chris


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[2001-12-05 18:59:06] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

This is a design. 
Connection parameters must be the same to reuse existing persistent connection. This 
design is useful when you have multiple transactions.



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[2001-09-26 21:44:30] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

We never had a problem with persistent connections until we started using about 40 
different db usernames/passwords for different scripts on our site, to give the 
scripts fine grained permissions.

Now, the problem is that we rapidly get 40 postmasters appearing, that are not reused. 
 The solution was to switch back to non-persistent connections and everything is hunky 
dory.

I'm fairly certain this problem started appearing in a recent PHP release as one day 
it wasn't doing it and one day it was, and PHP was upgraded on our servers arount that 
time.

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