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by aarondf 1264 days ago
> because persistent pooling has been a part of PHP (and advised) for years.

It may be advised, but I can assure you that it's not very common! I would guess that the vast, vast majority of PHP applications are _not_ pooling their connections. Especially when it comes to PHP hosted on Lambda, which is surprisingly a non-trivial amount of applications at this point.