[Zope-dev] Product refresh causes database connections leaking

[Oliver Bleutgen]

Shane Hathaway wrote:
> On Thu, 8 May 2003, Oliver Bleutgen wrote:
> 
> 
>>Refreshing causes the number of connections from zope to the postgres to 
>>grow (from 4 to 8 in the first time). That's why I suspected there's 
>>something wrong either with the DA or with the refresh functionality 
>>which has nothing to do with the ZODB.
> 
> 
> The refresh functionality *does* have to do with ZODB.  

Erm, yes, this sentence shouldn't express that, we need parenthesis also 
in natural languages, maybe.

> Specifically,
> Refresh attempts to clear the cache, but in Zope 2.6 it does not succeed
> in freeing objects from the cache.  That is why it's leaking 
> connections.  In Zope 2.7 it will hopefully succeed in freeing the cached 
> objects.

Ok, thanks for the explanation, I see this problem is known.


cheers,
oliver