Since 1.9 we actually do use a connection pool, configurable with
pool-max-conn.
Update the documentation in this regard.
Must be backported to 1.9.
- connections with certain bogus authentication schemes (relying on the
connection) like NTLM are detected, marked private and are never shared;
- No connection pool is involved, once a session dies, the last idle connection
- it was attached to is deleted at the same time. This ensures that connections
- may not last after all sessions are closed.
+ A connection pool is involved and configurable with "pool-max-conn".
Note: connection reuse improves the accuracy of the "server maxconn" setting,
because almost no new connection will be established while idle connections