Clearing the Poolmanager

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Deeem2031
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Clearing the Poolmanager

Post by Deeem2031 » Fri 26 Aug 2016 13:06

Hello again,

we migrated from ADO to SDAC. The next step for us was to enable connection pooling from SDAC. To get rid of connections to a database we want to delete we call TMSConnectionPoolManager.Clear. In some cases we get an access violation when we close a query afterwards. The pooling causes the connection to be put back into the pool which was freed before. Following an example to replicate the issue:

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var
  con: TMSConnection;
  qry: TMSQuery;
begin
  CoInitialize(nil);
  con := TMSConnection.Create(nil);
  con.ConnectString := 'Data Source=TEST;Initial Catalog=TEST;Authentication=Windows';
  con.Pooling := True;
  qry := TMSQuery.Create(nil);
  try
    qry.Connection := con;
    qry.SQL.Text := 'SELECT 1';
    qry.Open;
    TMSConnectionPoolManager.Clear;
    qry.Close;
  finally
    qry.Free;
    con.Free; // here access violation
  end;
Since TMSConnectionPoolManager.Clear isn't documented we are not sure if we use it properly or whether it is an implementation problem on your side. Any help is appreciated.

Best regards

azyk
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Re: Clearing the Poolmanager

Post by azyk » Mon 29 Aug 2016 09:49

Connection Pooling in SDAC controls creation and destruction of connections to server automatically. When pooling is used, then on calling the TMSConnection.Close method, connection to the server won't be closed, and it will be put into the pool for the number of milliseconds specified in TMSConnection.PoolingOptions.ConnectionLifetime. After that period, connection will be closed and deleted from the pool, if no other instance of TMSConnection uses it.

Therefore, in the sample you have provided, call of the TMSConnectionPoolManager.Clear method is not correct for pool clearing from connections.

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