30 Sep
2005
30 Sep
'05
2:55 a.m.
Without pconnect, the connection closes at the end of the script's execution. With pconnect, the connection stays open for use by a subsequent request using that process. Subsequent != concurrent, so you shouldn't be seeing any race conditions or multiple processes using a connection at the same time.
OK then. Lets ditch those home grown sequences and make use of auto-increment/serial/identity fields.