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

> > 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.

What are the consequences of not calling ->finish()? I have several apps
using DBD::Pg, and I don't think I've used it at all...

John

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