Re: Cursors

From:

Oracle® Database JDBC Developer's Guide,
11g Release 2 (11.2)
Part Number E10589-03

Sounds like closing cursors is still a best practice. I'd ask your developers to put up or shut-up. :)


Memory Leaks and Running Out of Cursors
If you receive messages that you are running out of cursors or that you are running out of memory, make sure that all your Statement and ResultSet objects are explicitly closed. Oracle JDBC drivers do not have finalizer methods. They perform cleanup routines by using the close method of the ResultSet and Statement classes. If you do not explicitly close your result set and statement
objects, significant memory leaks can occur. You could also run out of
cursors in the database. Closing a statement releases the corresponding
cursor in the database.
Similarly, you must explicitly close Connection objects
to avoid leaking and running out of cursors on the server-side. When
you close the connection, the JDBC driver closes any open statement
objects associated with it, thus releasing the cursor on the
server-side.

Here is a link to the new features page for this document:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/java.112/e10589/whatsnew.htm#BGBBIBAE

Same page for 11gR1:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/java.111/b31224/whatsnew.htm#sthref6

I don't see anything that sounds like what they describe...

RF



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From: "Goulet, Richard" <Richard.Goulet_at_parexel.com>
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Sent: Wed, December 23, 2009 11:31:05 AM
Subject: Cursors

Cursors 
All, 
        First off, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Happy Kwanza, etc…  to one and All. 
        I'm trying to track down a perception that some of our developers have that there is no longer, post Oracle 10g R1, a need for their applications to close cursors.  I've searched the Oracle docs, Metalink, and Google to no avail.  Anyone else hear about this "feature"?
Dick Goulet 
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