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pg_pconnect	pg_port

	Last updated: Thu, 26 Jun 2008

pg_ping

(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5)

pg_ping — Ping database connection

Description

bool pg_ping ([ resource $connection ] )

pg_ping() pings a database connection and tries to reconnect it if it is broken.

Parameters

connection: PostgreSQL database connection resource. When connection is not present, the default connection is used. The default connection is the last connection made by pg_connect() or pg_pconnect().

Return Values

Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

Examples

Example #1 pg_ping() example


<?php 

$conn = pg_pconnect("dbname=publisher");

if (!$conn) {

  echo "An error occured.\n";

  exit;

}



if (!pg_ping($conn))

  die("Connection is broken\n");

?>

pg_ping

Description

Parameters

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Examples

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