[wp-hackers] Persistent Connections

[Nikolay Bachiyski]

David House wrote:
> On 20/08/05, Nikolay Bachiyski <nbachiyski at developer.bg> wrote:
> 
>>IMHO adding an option whether persistent connections are used will be
>>useful. Of courseif by default it is 'off' :)
> 
> 
> Disagreed.
> 
> 1. Idiot playing around with preferences activates persistent connections
> 2. Shared server brought down
> 3. Host blames WordPress
> 
> I think a better way of handling things would be to wait until the
> database layer is abstracted (this is still on the development agenda,
> right?) then see if a plugin can handle it.
> 
I think you are fairly right. It us much safer *not* to have such an 
option :)

If somebody really needs persisten connections (implies mysql tuning, 
another layer, which pools connections) it will be as easy for him to 
patch the code as to just change an option.

Nikolay.