Detect MySQL’s “too many connections” error

WordPress appears to continue with execution even when MySQL refuses connections/queries after init. Here’s a comment in the MySQL docs suggesting how to detect the condition in raw PHP:

$link = mysql_connect("localhost", "mysql_user", "mysql_password");
if (mysql_errno() == 1203) {
  // 1203 == ER_TOO_MANY_USER_CONNECTIONS (mysqld_error.h)
  header("Location: http://your.site.com/alternate_page.php");
  exit;
}

Just a note to myself, but I wonder if there’s opportunity here.

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