Hi,

now I've found the problem: the Seaside session has catched the  
instances .....

Regards

Hans

Am 17.05.2006 um 21:55 schrieb Gary Chambers:

> The connections (and statements etc) are held by a weak registry. If
> anything strongly references them they will stay "alive". Try doing  
> a few
> runs of 'Smalltalk garbageCollect' before looking for instances.
>
> Usually chase pointers will find your problem (not always!).
>
> Working on ODBC and Glorp stuff at the moment, so been through a  
> bit of
> this!
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of  
>> Hans
>> N Beck
>> Sent: 17 May 2006 8:50 PM
>> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
>> Subject: Re: ODBC Problem
>>
>>
>> Hi Gary,
>>
>> Am 17.05.2006 um 21:40 schrieb Gary Chambers:
>>
>>> Try doing a "chase pointers" (from the popup menu) after  
>>> inspecting an
>>> instance of ODBCConnection. Should give you some idea of where the
>>> instance
>>> is being referenced.
>>>
>>> Also common is referencing an object in a workspace. Set the
>>> reference to
>>> nil or close the workspace.
>>
>> Yes, this I have tried already but doesn't help. But the other hint
>> is a good idea, I will try it.
>> What does me wonder is the "open transaction" property. Could this be
>> hint to the problem ?
>>
>> What I've done is make a ODBC connection via DSN, make a "select"
>> query and close the connection. After repeating this several times, I
>> do ODBCConnection (Class) >> clearAll, which reports that all
>> instances are yet alife. Must I do something with  
>> commitTransactions ?
>>
>> Thanks !
>>
>> Hans
>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>>>> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of
>>>> Hans
>>>> N Beck
>>>> Sent: 17 May 2006 7:43 PM
>>>> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
>>>> Subject: ODBC Problem
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> we'are talking about Squeak 3.8 running at Windows XP and ODBC
>>>> Package from squeak map, loaded today:
>>>>
>>>> I've done several connections to a ODBC source. Connection works
>>>> great but I could not remove the old objects (I use it with  
>>>> seaside).
>>>> ODBCConnection Class>>clearAll doesn't work, something prevent the
>>>> old ODBCConnection instances to be garbaged collected.
>>>>
>>>> (making ODBCConnections allInstances shows that all connections are
>>>> closed, but "open transaction" ???)
>>>>
>>>> Have someone a hint 8-) ?
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Hans
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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