Re: [GENERAL] Memory Management in pqlib, Garbage Collection support

2012-05-03 Thread Alexander Reichstadt
(Sorry, I meant libpq). Actually it's finalize in Objective-C as well. PGSQLKit is the ObjC wrapper framework for libpq. I was confused by what I had learnt about GC, being it can't mix with non-GC. What the docu didn't mention in the places I read --or at least not so that it stuck-- was that i

Re: [GENERAL] Memory Management in pqlib, Garbage Collection support

2012-05-03 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 3 May 2012 09:39, Alexander Reichstadt wrote: > Thanks, that's answering my question. In Objective-C as well as many other I notice that you're talking about pqlib instead of libpq. Perhaps pqlib is an Obj-C wrapper around libpq that most of us just don't know about? Obj-C is not a particularl

Re: [GENERAL] Memory Management in pqlib, Garbage Collection support

2012-05-03 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Alexander Reichstadt 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

Re: [GENERAL] Memory Management in pqlib, Garbage Collection support

2012-05-03 Thread Peter Bex
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 09:39:29AM +0200, Alexander Reichstadt 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 origi

Re: [GENERAL] Memory Management in pqlib, Garbage Collection support

2012-05-03 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Alexander Reichstadt 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 "va

Re: [GENERAL] Memory Management in pqlib, Garbage Collection support

2012-05-03 Thread Alexander Reichstadt
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

Re: [GENERAL] Memory Management in pqlib, Garbage Collection support

2012-05-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 05/03/12 12:08 AM, Alexander Reichstadt wrote: since I got no answer so far I searched through the docu again. I searched for GC as well as Garbage, and all garbage refers to is with regard to vacuuming a database. But my question refers to wether or not memory management is with garbage co

Re: [GENERAL] Memory Management in pqlib, Garbage Collection support

2012-05-03 Thread Peter Bex
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 09:08:53AM +0200, Alexander Reichstadt wrote: > > Hi, > > since I got no answer so far I searched through the docu again. I searched > for GC as well as Garbage, and all garbage refers to is with regard to > vacuuming a database. But my question refers to wether or not m

[GENERAL] Memory Management in pqlib, Garbage Collection support

2012-05-03 Thread Alexander Reichstadt
Hi, since I got no answer so far I searched through the docu again. I searched for GC as well as Garbage, and all garbage refers to is with regard to vacuuming a database. But my question refers to wether or not memory management is with garbage collection supported or not. When I try to link