From: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: P.N.Guru Prasad <pnguruji@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Memory leak!!
Date: 12 Apr 2003 11:10:42 -0400
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Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> "P.N.Guru Prasad" <pnguruji@yahoo.com> writes:
> > while (1) {
> > print "sql executed and returned :", $Dbh->prepare("select user_id from
> > 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?
Perl reference counts these objects so that shouldn't be a problem.
You could be sure by using Devel::LeakTrace or Devel::Leak or something like
that. But I suspect they won't find anything because I suspect the problem is
in the DBD::pg driver or libpq at the C level.
--
greg
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