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

Alexander Foken wrote:
>
>
> 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.

Much older than that I would say of 98 vintage ;)
>
> So, there is another piece of cargo cult that I have to get rid off.
>
> Alexander