Re: patch: add a finalizer to AbstractJdbc1Statement

On 17/08/2003 15:00 Oliver Jowett wrote:
> This patch adds a finalizer to AbstractJdbc1Statement that closes the
> statement. Without this, when server-side preparation is in use
> statements
> that are executed then discarded without an explicit close() will leak
> resources on the backend while that connection remains open, as a
> DEALLOCATE
> never gets executed.

Not a good solution IMHO. Relying on GC to clean up resource leaks is a
poor solution. And it you simply System.exit() the JVM, GC is not called
at all.

regards

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