Re: Memory Management in pqlib, Garbage Collection support

On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 09:08:53AM +0200, Alexander Reichstadt wrote:
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> Hi,
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> since I got no answer so far I searched through the docu again. I searched for GC as well as Garbage, and all garbage refers to is with regard to vacuuming a database. But my question refers to wether or not memory management is with garbage collection supported or not. When I try to link against pqlib, it seems I need to have garbage collection enabled in order for it to link. But the documentation mentions it nowhere.

What kind of garbage collection do you need to have enabled in order to link?

C is based on manual memory-management, and you can't generally have
garbage-collection in it. Hence, libpq is *not* garbage-collected and
your statement that it needs "garbage collection enabled" doesn't make
much sense to me.

Are you talking about libpq bindings to some other language, perhaps?

> Please, can someone confirm this or is this the wrong list?

This is the right list.

Cheers,
Peter
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