Re: Release connections in MODPERL

Get this, all it takes to release the connection (since PQfinish() doesn't
work and there isn't any Pg::disconnectdb() )

is to set the your handle to null !!

PERL's garbage collection picks it up and voila! no extra processes
hanging in memory.

so if you do this:

$DBNAME = 'template1';
$SQLCONNECT = "dbname = " . $DBNAME;
$SQL = Pg::connectdb($SQLCONNECT);

you can simply do this:

$SQL = null;

otherwise Apache/modperl holds onto the connection and the number of
postmaster tasks in memory grows

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