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Re: [HACKERS] destroydb doesn't close connection with client (httpd <-> pg)

Edmund Mergl <e.mergl@bawue.de> — 1999-06-12T19:46:45Z

Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> 
> I have Web site where I use persistent connection between
> httpd (Apache) and database (postgres,6.5). I noticed strange
> results I got after reloading page with results from query
> when I destroydb , createdb, fill db ( with the same data ).
> It seems backend doesn't close connection when db is destroyed
> and this produces unpredictable results. My application is
> written in Perl  and uses DBI/DBD for persistent connection.
> I don't know is it DBI/DBD problem or backend must close
> all connections to DB when it destroyed.
> 
>         Regards,
>                 Oleg
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> Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia)
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This is not DBI/DBD-Pg specific.

A short test with psql shows, that this seems to be 
a bug of postgresql itself.

Create and fill a database. Connect to this database with psql
and perform some query. Without disconnecting destroy and re-create 
the database but insert this time different data. Performing
the same query a second time will retrieve the same data as before 


Edmund



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