[Haskell-cafe] Re: garbage collector woes

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Thu Feb 19 18:41:40 EST 2009


waterson:
> On Feb 17, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Chris Waterson wrote:
>
>> I'm at wits end with respect to GHC's garbage collector and would very
>> much appreciate a code review of my MySQL driver for HDBC, which is
>> here:
>>
>>  
>> <http://www.maubi.net/~waterson/REPO/HDBC-mysql/Database/HDBC/MySQL/Connection.hsc 
>> >
>>
>> In particular, the problem that I'm having is that my "statements"
>> (really, just iterators over a SQL query result set) are getting
>> garbage collected prematurely.
>
> So (*blush*), my woes turned out to be my misunderstanding of the MySQL C 
> API, which
> I have now come to terms with.  I apologize for the noise here.

Is the solution written up somewhere so we can point to that next time?
:)


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