On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:25:48PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Of course, this begs the question of what ping is really supposed to > test and when it's supposed to be allowable. The above will not work > if in the middle of retrieving a query result, for example.
Well, there's that. I'm not really sure why there's a need for a ping -- and I've heard others question it, too. Perl's DBI has a connect_cached() function that is suppose to return a cached connection if it's still alive. So that is one place "ping" is used. If ping fails then a new connection is created. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly