On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Alexander Reichstadt <lxr@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks, that's answering my question. In Objective-C as well as many other > languages there is the feature to turn on Garbage Collection. It's a > separate thread that scans memory for strong pointers, their source and > origin and "vacuums" memory so to not have any leaks. Anything unreferenced > and no longer needed is cleaned up automatically. There are some border > cases where GC can fail, but for most it works. libpq is a C library, not an objective-C library. So it clearly doesn't use an objective-c construct. If you are using some wrapper on top of libpq it might change things, but libpq itself has no knowledge of GC at all. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
