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Bug #12518 ocifreestatment doesn't free the Oracle cursor and so you run out of cursors
Submitted: 2001-08-01 13:20 UTC Modified: 2001-08-06 13:24 UTC
From: derek at innovyx dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: OCI8 related
PHP Version: 4.0.6 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2001-08-01 13:20 UTC] derek at innovyx dot com 
the ocifreestatment function doesn't actually free the Oracle cursor, these are only freed when the script exits.

While this isn't a problem when using PHP as a web page it is a problem if you have a command line script that has to perform thousands (or tens of thousands) of queries eventually the open_cursors limit is exceeded and all further queries fail.

The same appears to be true with connections.

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 [2001-08-01 16:18 UTC] thies@php.net 
what makes you belive it doesn't work?

please send me a short testcase that shows leakage of 
resources.
 [2001-08-06 12:59 UTC] derek at innovyx dot com 
I have a long-running PHP script that eventually comes up with: 

Failed execution, error: ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 2 ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded.

I don't explicitly use any cursors in this script btw. In addition I found (via a web search) that someone else has been experiencing the same thing.

However, in response to your request I've been trying to build a test script to leak cursors and reproduce the problem, unfortunately, thus far, even deliberately leaking cursors is not producing it. :(
 [2001-08-06 13:23 UTC] derek at innovyx dot com 
With the help of v$open_cursor I've tracked down the problem and it was a case of user error, my apologies for having taken up your time.
 [2001-08-06 13:24 UTC] sniper@php.net 
user error
 
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