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From: Ian Barwick <barwick@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org,
	"P.N.Guru Prasad" <pnguruji@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Memory leak!!
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 08:38:09 +0200
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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On Wednesday 09 April 2003 06:58, Tom Lane wrote:
> "P.N.Guru Prasad" <pnguruji@yahoo.com> writes:
> > while (1) {
> >   print "sql executed and returned :", $Dbh->prepare("select user_id fr=
om
> > users limit 1")->execute, "\n";
> > }
>
> I'm not a DBI user, but I'd kinda expect that executing a query would
> result in an object holding the results from that query.  Don't you need
> to do something to close/delete the result objects you're generating?

Does=20

while (1) {
  my $sth =3D $Dbh->prepare("select user_id from users limit 1");
  print "sql executed and returned :", $sth->execute, "\n";=20
  $sth->finish();
}

make any difference?

If not try asking the dbi-users list,  dbi-users@perl.org
( http://lists.perl.org/showlist.cgi?name=3Ddbi-users )

Ian Barwick
barwick@gmx.net