PHP Conference Nagoya 2025

pg_connect

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

pg_connectAbre uma conexão PostgreSQL

Descrição

pg_connect(string $connection_string, int $flags = 0): PgSql\Connection|false

pg_connect() abre uma conexão com um banco de dados PostgreSQL especificado pelo connection_string.

Se uma segunda chamada for feita para pg_connect() com o mesmo connection_string de uma conexão existente, a conexão existente será retornada a menos que você passe PGSQL_CONNECT_FORCE_NEW como flags.

A sintaxe antiga com múltiplos parâmetros $conn = pg_connect("host", "port", "options", "tty", "dbname") foi descontinuada.

Parâmetros

connection_string

O connection_string pode estar vazio para usar todos os parâmetros padrão ou pode conter uma ou mais configurações de parâmetro separadas por espaços em branco. Cada configuração de parâmetro está no formato palavra-chave = valor. Os espaços ao redor do sinal de igual são opcionais. Para escrever um valor vazio ou contendo espaços, coloque-o entre aspas simples, por exemplo, palavra-chave = 'um valor'. Aspas simples e barras invertidas dentro do valor devem ser escapadas com uma barra invertida, ou seja, \' e \\.

As palavras-chave de parâmetro atualmente reconhecidas são: host, hostaddr, port, dbname (o padrão é o valor de user), user, password, connect_timeout, options, tty (ignorado), sslmode, requiressl (descontinuado em favor de sslmode) e service. Quais desses argumentos existem depende da sua versão do PostgreSQL.

O parâmetro options pode ser usado para definir parâmetros de linha de comando a serem invocados pelo servidor.

flags

Se PGSQL_CONNECT_FORCE_NEW for passado, então uma nova conexão será criada, mesmo que connection_string seja idêntico a uma conexão existente.

Se PGSQL_CONNECT_ASYNC for fornecido, então a conexão será estabelecida de forma assíncrona. O estado da conexão pode então ser verificado via pg_connect_poll() ou pg_connection_status().

Valor Retornado

Retorna uma instância PgSql\Connection em caso de sucesso, ou false em caso de falha.

Registro de Alterações

Versão Descrição
8.1.0 Retorna uma instância PgSql\Connection agora; anteriormente, um resource era retornado.

Exemplos

Exemplo #1 Usanso pg_connect()

<?php
$dbconn
= pg_connect("dbname=mary");
//conecta-se a um banco de dados chamado "mary"

$dbconn2 = pg_connect("host=localhost port=5432 dbname=mary");
//conecta-se a um banco de dados chamado "mary" em "localhost" na porta "5432"

$dbconn3 = pg_connect("host=sheep port=5432 dbname=mary user=lamb password=foo");
///conecta-se a um banco de dados chamado "mary" no host "sheep" com um usuário e senha

$conn_string = "host=sheep port=5432 dbname=test user=lamb password=bar";
$dbconn4 = pg_connect($conn_string);
//conecta-se a um banco de dados chamado "test" no host "sheep" com um usuário e senha

$dbconn5 = pg_connect("host=localhost options='--client_encoding=UTF8'");
//conecta-se a um banco de dados em "localhost" e define o parâmetro da linha de comando que informa que a codificação está em UTF-8
?>

Veja Também

  • pg_pconnect() - Abre uma conexão PostgreSQL persistente
  • pg_close() - Fecha uma conexão PostgreSQL
  • pg_host() - Retorna o nome do host associado à conexão
  • pg_port() - Retorne o número da porta associada à conexão
  • pg_tty() - Retorna o nome TTY associado à conexão
  • pg_options() - Obtém as opções associadas à conexão
  • pg_dbname() - Obtém o nome do banco de dados

adicione uma nota

Notas Enviadas por Usuários (em inglês) 19 notes

up
13
lukasz dot wolczak at gmail dot com
8 years ago
It is worth to know, that you can set application_name in connection string, consider this simple example:

<?php
$appName
= $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$connStr = "host=localhost port=5432 dbname=postgres user=postgres options='--application_name=$appName'";

//simple check
$conn = pg_connect($connStr);
$result = pg_query($conn, "select * from pg_stat_activity");
var_dump(pg_fetch_all($result));

?>

By doing this move on cli or cgi you can see in pgAdmin what scripts are running or what requests are running on database. You can extend configuration of postgres to track slow queries and print application name to logs. It was very usuful to me to find out what and where should I optimize.
up
6
Dave
11 years ago
If you use pgbouncer and unix socket
and you pgbouncer.ini looks like this
listen_port = 6432
unix_socket_dir = /tmp

you connect like this

pg_connect('host=/tmp port=6432 dbname=DB user=USER password=PASS');
up
4
Anonymous
10 years ago
Getting md5 passwords was confusing because of a lack of documentation:

- set up your pg_hba.conf in order to use md5 password instead of 'trust' or 'ident'
- check if your postgres.conf has 'password_encryption=on' (depending on the version this might already be 'on').
- make sure to restart your postgres process.
- in PHP you just supply the username and password in _plain_ text:
'host=localhost port=5432 dbname=megadb user=megauser password=holyhandbagsbatmanthispasswordisinplaintext'
The postgres PHP library will automagically do the md5 encoding for you, no need to do it yourself.
up
4
bgalloway at citycarshare dot org
16 years ago
Beware about writing something like
<?php
function getdb_FAILS() {
return
pg_connect("...") or die('connection failed');
}
?>

It will return a boolean. This will appear to be fine if you don't use the return value as a db connection handle, but will fail if you do.

Instead, use:
<?php
function getdb() {
$db = pg_connect("...") or die('connection failed');
return
$db;
}
?>

which actually returns a handle.
up
2
tim at buttersideup dot com
16 years ago
It's not explicitly stated here, but you can also connect to PostgreSQL via a UNIX domain socket by leaving the host empty. This should have less overhead than using TCP e.g.:

$dbh = new PDO('pgsql:user=exampleuser dbname=exampledb password=examplepass');

In fact as the C library call PQconnectdb underlies this implementation, you can supply anything that this library call would take - the "pgsql:" prefix gets stripped off before PQconnectdb is called, and if you supply any of the optional arguments (e.g. user), then these arguments will be added to the string that you supplied... Check the docs for your relevant PostgreSQL client library: e.g.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/libpq-connect.html

If you really want, you can use ';'s to separate your arguments - these will just be converted to spaces before PQconnectdb is called.

Tim.
up
2
thakur at corexprts dot com
14 years ago
One thing is to remember, whenever trying to use pg_connect, add the timeout parameter with it

<?php
$d
=pg_connect('host=example.com user=pgsql dbname=postgres connect_timeout=5');
?>
up
1
matias at nospam dot projectcast dot com
22 years ago
At least with Postgres 7.2, connecting to local postgresdatabase requires a user in the database with the same name as the user running apache, or the connection fails.
up
0
VLroyrenn
5 years ago
For what it's worth, it should be noted that, while PHP will generally handle connection-reuse for you so long as you keep using the same connection strings, as in the following example:

<?php
$before_conn1
= microtime(true);
$db1 = pg_connect($conn_string);

$before_conn2 = microtime(true);
$db2 = pg_connect($conn_string);
$after_conn2 = microtime(true);

echo(
$before_conn2 - $before_conn1); // Takes ~0.03s
echo("\n");
echo(
$after_conn2 - $before_conn2); // Takes 0s
?>

...as nice as it would have been, this does not hold true for async connections; you have to manage those yourself and you can't follow up an async connection with a blocking one later on as an easy way to wait for the connection process to complete before sending queries.

<?php
$before_conn1
= microtime(true);
$db1 = pg_connect($conn_string, PGSQL_CONNECT_ASYNC);
sleep(1);

$before_conn2 = microtime(true);
$db2 = pg_connect($conn_string);
$after_conn2 = microtime(true);

echo(
$before_conn2 - $before_conn1); // Takes ~1s
echo("\n");
echo(
$after_conn2 - $before_conn2); // Takes ~0.025s
?>
up
-1
Anonymous
19 years ago
The values accepted by pg_connect's sslmode argument are: disable, allow, prefer, require
up
-1
gutostraube at gmail dot com
15 years ago
It's possible connect to a PostgreSQL database via Unix socket using the pg_connect() function by the following two ways:

1) Using the socket path:

<?php
$conn
= pg_connect('host=/var/run/postgresql user=username dbname=databasename');
?>

2) Omitting the host name/path:

<?php
$conn
= pg_connect('user=username dbname=databasename');
?>

Note: in this case (omitting the host value), the default socket path will be used.
up
-2
leace at post dot cz
24 years ago
If you use PostgreSQL users for authenticating into your pg database rather than using your own authentication, always specify host directive in pg_connect and edit pg_hba.conf to authenticate from this host accordingly. Otherwise, PHP will connect as 'local' using UNIX domain sockets, which is set in pg_hba.conf to 'trust' by default (so you can connect using psql on console without specifying password) and everyone can connect to db _without password_ .
up
-2
phpnet at benjamin dot schulz dot name
20 years ago
if you need to open a new connection handle (i.e. for multiple pg_send_query()) use PGSQL_CONNECT_FORCE_NEW as second parameter to pg_connect()
up
-2
floriparob at gmail dot com
8 years ago
Using the "service" parameter as the connection string -- we found that the following functions:-

putenv("PGSERVICEFILE=/path/to/your/service/file/pg_service.conf");
$connect_string = ("service=testdb");
try {
$pgconn_handle = pg_connect($connect_string);
. . . . . etc.

Note:-
1) the environment variable has to point to the path AND file name.
2) the file has to be readable by Apache.

See:-

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/libpq-pgservice.html

for how to create your pg_service.conf
up
-3
Sohel Taslim
17 years ago
I got the same problem but I have to solve that in different way.
In my postgresql.conf file the following was commented.
So, I active that under Connection Settings-

# - Connection Settings –
tcpip_socket = true
up
-2
xzilla at users dot sourceforge dot net
20 years ago
regarding the note from matias at nospam dot projectcast dot com
on 12-Feb-2002 01:16, you do not need a user in the database with the same name a your web user with ANY version of postgresql. The only time that would be a requirement ifs if you set your postgresql server to only allow IDENT based authentication (which IIRC is the default on Red Hat systems, which might be what lead to the confusion). For more info on the various authentication methods allowed by postgresql, check out http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/client-authentication.html
up
-2
jtate at php dot net
21 years ago
If you use host=HOSTNAME in your pg_connect string when connecting to PostgreSQL databases newer than 7.1, you need to make sure that your postmaster daemon is started with the "-i" option. Otherwise the connection will fail. See http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?client-authentication.html for client authentication documentation.
up
-3
kayotix at yahoo dot com
24 years ago
Little note that is buried in the install somewhere. In Php 3, PostgreSQL support was activated by adding --with-postgresql=[DIR] to the options passed to ./configure. With Php 4.0.2 (on Linux) the parameter was --with-pgsql. The only place I found this was in the installing PHP on Unix section of the manual.
up
-3
rolf at sir-wum dot de
23 years ago
pg_connect() won't work with the authentication method 'crypt' in the pg_hba.conf. Took me an hour to figure that out till I remeberd some other issues with windows missing the crypt() call.
up
-5
derry at siliconriver.com dot au
21 years ago
pg_connect seems to support SSL connections, on systems where Postgres has been compiled with ssl, i'm assuming this is since psql uses libpq to connect.
pg_connect can successfully connect, and use the "requiressl" argument.
To Top