(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5, PHP 7)
pg_ping — Ping database connection
$connection
] )pg_ping() pings a database connection and tries to reconnect it if it is broken.
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().
Returns TRUE
on success or FALSE
on failure.
Example #1 pg_ping() example
<?php
$conn = pg_pconnect("dbname=publisher");
if (!$conn) {
echo "An error occurred.\n";
exit;
}
if (!pg_ping($conn))
die("Connection is broken\n");
?>