Re: Memory leak ?

Pierre Le Mouëllic  writes:

> With this code :
>
> public class TestJDBC {

[...]

>             try {
>                 sQLStatement.setInt(1, 2602);
>                 rs = sQLStatement.executeQuery();
>                 sQLStatement.setInt(1, 2604);
>                 rs = sQLStatement.executeQuery();
>                 sQLStatement.setInt(1, 2605);
>                 rs = sQLStatement.executeQuery();
>             } catch (SQLException e) {
>             }
>             finally{
>
>                 try {
>                     if(rs!=null)
>                         rs.close();

e.g. you explicitely close only the last resultset of the three
you produced (assuming no exception)

> In eclipse Helios profiler, Jdbc3ResultSet live instances increase (and never
> decrease). Same thing with

Garbage collection is not predictable, closing resultsets (and
statements) is strongly adviced if you want to release JDBC
resources in a timely manner.

I have never used this profiler but it would be interesting to
know if any references are keeping these objects alive (then we
could begin thinking of a leak), or if they are only not yet
collected by the GC because it decided not to do it yet for any
reason.

Interestingly, the diff between:

http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/sql/Statement.html#close()

and:

http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/sql/Statement.html#close()

shows they've removed "Statement object is automatically closed
when it is garbage collected." no idea why though. probably a
more seasoned PG-JDBC dev/user would have?

-- 
Guillaume Cottenceau