Open a persistent connection to an Ingres database.
There are only two differences between this function and ingres_connect(): First, when connecting, the function will initially try to find a (persistent) link that is already opened with the same parameters. If one is found, an identifier for it will be returned instead of opening a new connection. Second, the connection to the Ingres server will not be closed when the execution of the script ends. Instead, the link will remain open for future use (ingres_close() will not close links established by ingres_pconnect()). This type of link is therefore called "persistent".
The database name. Must follow the syntax:
[vnode::]dbname[/svr_class]
The Ingres user name
The password associated with username
See ingres_connect() for the list of options that can be passed
Returns an Ingres link resource on success or FALSE
on failure
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