Potential dbi memory leak.

Hi Guys,

You may have seen part of this post on PerlMonks.  If so apologies for 
the duplication.  This started off as a general search for leaks in my 
code, and resulted in a few hits, one of which was attached to every 
database access.

A simple "select ATT_RECORD_NAME_TXT from TBL_TEST; " results in the 
leak of one scalar value.  It seems to be attached to the ->prepare 
statement.

At first I assumed it was down to my Firebird driver, which is 
relatively new, so I switched the driver to ODBC::Firebird, with the 
same result.  Finally I changed to mysql and again got a memory leak.  
The only thing I can assume is that either my code is generically wrong 
(and I hope this is the case), or there is a leak in dbi, which I would 
be surprised by.

I would appreciate some advice.

Test code follows.  Please install Devel::Leak to pick up leaked scalars 
and update the dsn to the dsn of your choice.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Steve.

#! /usr/bin/perl

package main;
use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;
#use DBD::Firebird;
use DBD::ODBC;
use Devel::Leak;
     my $handle;
     my $count_start;
     my $count_stop;
     my $gl_dbh;

     # Just do this 5 times to make sure there is no contribution to 
$handle count from Devel::Leak
     for (1..10){
     print "Handle init: ", Devel::Leak::NoteSV($Launch::handle),"\n";
     }
#my $loc_dsn = <<DSN;
#dbi:ODBC:Driver=Firebird;Dbname=/home/image/Documents/Endoscopia/DB/newEndo.fdb;
#ib_dialect=3;
#DSN
my $loc_dsn = <<DSN;
DBI:mysql:database=new_schema_test;
host=localhost;
port=3306";
DSN
     $Launch::gl_dbh=DBI->connect($loc_dsn,"root","password", {
         PrintError => 1,                    # Report errors via warn
         RaiseError => 1                    # Report errors via Die
     }
     ) or die;

     my @loc_sql_string =();
     $loc_sql_string[0]="CREATE TABLE TBL_TEST_LEAK ( ATTR_RECORD_ID_TXT 
VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL, ATT_RECORD_NAME_TXT VARCHAR(255), CONSTRAINT 
PK_TBL_TEST_LEAK PRIMARY KEY (ATTR_RECORD_ID_TXT) ); ";
     $loc_sql_string[1]="GRANT DELETE, INSERT, REFERENCES, SELECT, 
UPDATE ON TBL_TEST_LEAK TO  SYSDBA WITH GRANT OPTION";
     $loc_sql_string[2]="INSERT INTO TBL_TEST_LEAK (ATTR_RECORD_ID_TXT, 
ATT_RECORD_NAME_TXT) VALUES ('206', 'Delay Test 1' )";
     $loc_sql_string[3]="select ATT_RECORD_NAME_TXT from TBL_TEST_LEAK; ";
     $loc_sql_string[4]= $loc_sql_string[3];
     $loc_sql_string[5]= $loc_sql_string[3];
     $loc_sql_string[6]= $loc_sql_string[3];
     $loc_sql_string[7]= $loc_sql_string[3];
     $loc_sql_string[8]= $loc_sql_string[3];
     $loc_sql_string[9]="drop table TBL_TEST_LEAK; ";

     for (my $i=1;$i<=9;$i++){
     $count_start=Devel::Leak::NoteSV($Launch::handle);
     print "DBD start: ", $count_start,"\n";
     print $loc_sql_string[$i], "\n";
     dbd_select($loc_sql_string[$i]);
     # You can use
     #$count_stop=Devel::Leak::CheckSV($Launch::handle);
     $count_stop=Devel::Leak::NoteSV($Launch::handle);
     print "Handle stop: ", $count_stop,"\n";
     print "Count difference: ", $count_stop-$count_start,"\n";
     }
     $Launch::gl_dbh->disconnect;

sub dbd_select{
     my $loc_sql_string=shift;
     my $loc_sth=$Launch::gl_dbh->prepare($loc_sql_string) or die;
     #$loc_sth->execute() or die;
     #$loc_sth->finish();
     return;
}

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