Re: BUG #3031: PHP (and others?) cannot close a connection when "in" a COPY-statement

From: Arjen van der Meijden <acmmailing(at)tweakers(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #3031: PHP (and others?) cannot close a connection when "in" a COPY-statement
Date: 2007-02-20 07:21:25
Message-ID: 45DAA175.2040705@tweakers.net
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On 20-2-2007 8:07 Tom Lane wrote:
> It's surely incorrect as a means of getting out of a COPY state. To
> tell the truth, if their intention is to close the connection
> unceremoniously, they should just do that, ie PQfinish or just quit
> the application. So I'd suggest removing that loop.

I think its meant as a generic way of closing the connection. I.e. not
only to close the connection as a last-resort "clean things up before we
return to the webserver/console, but also half-way if the client asks
for it (as the code behind 'pg_close').

I.e. you don't want memory-leaks to build up because someone, for some
reason, needs something like this and the internal code doesn't clean up
something that easily could've been cleaned up:

while($something)
{
$c = pg_connect("..");
// Queries
pg_close($c);
}

Although obviously, that kind of code is not so common and should only
be used if there is a very good reason not to open/close the connection
outside the loop. Besides that, its very common in php to just leave the
garbage to the php-engine, probably even worse than in Java.
I guess, that if they really wanted to keep something like this
while-loop, they need to request the result-status and if its not the
result of a finished query (either failed, ok, empty, etc) they should
send a cancel request?

Anyway, I'll add your advice to that bug-report.

Best regards,

Arjen

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