On 03/08/2016 09:14 AM, Simon Slavin wrote: > On 8 Mar 2016, at 2:10am, Stephen Chrzanowski <pontiac76 at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Out of curiosity, from a memory management standpoint, if I create a memory >> database, populate simple tables and such, to what falls the responsibility >> with cleaning up the memory used? >> >> Will SQLite handle :memory: databases internally, flushing out the tables >> from memory? >> >> Does my application have to handle dropping the tables before actually >> closing the connection? > You can manually DROP the table. > > If the table still exists when you close the connection SQLite will DROP the > table for you. > > If you call sqlite3_shutdown(void) while SQLite still has connections open it > will close the connections for you.
I don't think it does that. sqlite3_shutdown() is for embedded platforms to shutdown sub-systems initialized by sqlite3_initialize(). Calling it with open connections will usually either leak resources or crash. More here: https://www.sqlite.org/c3ref/initialize.html
