Re: When to close a Statement

From: Markus Schaber <schabi(at)logix-tt(dot)com>
To: Carlos Correia <carlos(at)m16e(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: When to close a Statement
Date: 2006-02-15 13:23:20
Message-ID: 43F32B48.8080104@logix-tt.com
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Hi, Carlos,

Carlos Correia wrote:

> After having had some problems with JDBC statements, as I mentioned in a
> previous post, due to different behaviours between versions 7.x and 8.x
> in the way Postgres deals with statements, I would like to know what is
> the proper way of dealing with this.
>
> I realized that the need to close the statement is implementaion
> dependent, and now I'm a bit confused as I can't find anything in
> Postgres docs about this issue... so the questions are:
>
> - must I close the statement after *every* executeXXX method call?

No, only close it if you don't need it any more.

But reusing a statement closes the ResultSet from the last query used
with this statement. The same is for begin/abort/commit.

> - should I also close the connection as well, or may I leave it open
> during the application execution?

Keep it open as long as possible (or use a connection pool), because
reopening a connection is slow.

HTH,
Markus
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