Re: You (almost certainly) do NOT need to call finish()

Tim Bunce wrote:
> Still got the finish() habit? Let it go!
>
> I often see people posting snippets of example DBI code that call
> finish() after a fetch loop. You don't need to do that.
>   
Good to know, escpecially since most example code I've seen has the call 
to finish().
> To quote the fine manual:
>
>     "So you should _not_ normally need to call it explicitly _except_ when
>     you know that you've not fetched all the data from a statement handle."
>
>     http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.611/DBI.pm#finish
>   
And it's there since at least 2005.  I would have bet it wasn't there.

So, there is another piece of cargo cult that I have to get rid off.

Alexander