| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | Alexander Reichstadt <lxr(at)mac(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Bex <Peter(dot)Bex(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Memory Management in pqlib, Garbage Collection support |
| Date: | 2012-05-03 07:56:33 |
| Message-ID: | CABUevEyZw9bGkTJonEa37d2ZbXtWHvucOnpRXYRxa8rOwHuqog@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Alexander Reichstadt <lxr(at)mac(dot)com> wrote:
> Thanks, that's answering my question. In Objective-C as well as many other
> languages there is the feature to turn on Garbage Collection. It's a
> separate thread that scans memory for strong pointers, their source and
> origin and "vacuums" memory so to not have any leaks. Anything unreferenced
> and no longer needed is cleaned up automatically. There are some border
> cases where GC can fail, but for most it works.
libpq is a C library, not an objective-C library. So it clearly
doesn't use an objective-c construct. If you are using some wrapper on
top of libpq it might change things, but libpq itself has no knowledge
of GC at all.
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Magnus Hagander
Me: http://www.hagander.net/
Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
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