Re: pqlib garbage collection

On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 08:33:06AM +0200, Alexander Reichstadt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since I got no answer so far I searched through the docu again. I
> searched for GC as well as Garbage, and all garbage refers to is with
> regard to vacuuming a database.  But my question refers to wether or
> not memory management is with garbage collection supported or not.
> When I try to link against pqlib, it seems I need to have garbage
> collection enabled in order for it to link.  But the documentation
> mentions it nowhere.

(I'm assuming you're referring to libpq, the C library).

There is no magic garbage collection. You must use PQclear.

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