Re: Perl & DBI/DBD::Pg confusion with finish - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John Madden
Subject Re: Perl & DBI/DBD::Pg confusion with finish
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Msg-id 01030209032465.13156@weez
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In response to Re: Perl & DBI/DBD::Pg confusion with finish  (David Wheeler <david@wheeler.net>)
Responses Re: Perl & DBI/DBD::Pg confusion with finish
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> > When using DBD::Pg through DBI, can somebody tell me if it is
> > necessary to be calling the $sth->finish routine?  The DBI.pm
> > documentation states that there is no need to call it if you call
> > $sth->fetchrow_xxxref until the rows are exhausted - finish should get
> > called automatically, and $sth->{'Active'} should change to false.
>
> We've found that DBD::Pg doesn't do this. So we either have to call
> $sth->finish every time, or prepare the statement with
> $dbh->prepare_cached() and passing the active flag as true. It shouldn't
> be this way, but it is.

What are the consequences of not calling ->finish()?  I have several apps
using DBD::Pg, and I don't think I've used it at all...

John




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