V4MD 2.5 b11 crashes Director

[erne]

on 7-11-2006 22:46, Pierre Rossel at prossel2 at myrealbox.com wrote:

> Hello Ruslan,
> 
>> You should avoid to use BETA in any case for YOUR release.
>> Right?
> 
> Yes, I think I will be safer with a stable release.
> 
> 
>>> OS: Win XP SP2
>>> More info: 
>>> No time to track the bug to simple example, switching back
>> to 2.4.3 which is
>>> latest stable release.
>> 
>>> Just wanted to show the problem in case it is already known.
>> 
>> This problem sounds like -- a not destroyed cursor.
> 
> OK, let's investigate. I never store cursors in persistent variables. Only
> local variables that are destroyed when the function exits.
> I sometimes use cursor variables in loops, but I assume previous cursor is
> destroyed when new one is assigned to the variable. There is no explicit
> destructor for cursors, right ? Just setting the variable to void or
> assigning it a new value (new cursor) will destroy the previous one. Maybe
> it is related to the garbage collector that actually destroys object later ?
> 
> The point is: very same procedure produces no crash with 2.4.3, and crashes
> with 2.5 b11. There must be something but, since I want to stay with 2.4.3
> for my next release, there is no point for me tracking down this bug on 2.5.
> (I mean: not yet).

do you use any SqlExecute with bindings?

do you set the CollationAttribute of some table?

either one of these crashed my apps on niling the DB with V4RB2.5b12



Cool Runnings,
Erne.

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