Re: Perl & DBI/DBD::Pg confusion with finish

From: David Wheeler <david(at)wheeler(dot)net>
To: David Lynn <davidl(at)ayamba(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Perl & DBI/DBD::Pg confusion with finish
Date: 2001-03-02 06:12:34
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0103012210020.15001-100000@theory
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On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, David Lynn wrote:

>
> Hello -
>
> 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.

HTH,

David

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