It is not surprising that this turned out to be a MySQL thing. I was actually expecting something along those lines, but after reading through the docs, and the FAQs, and what have you, all I could find was a list of people having the same problem, but no solutions were suggested that actually worked.

Until kschwab's, that is.

The 'mysql_use_result' flag is a DBD::mysql feature that switches methods. As the driver documentation points out, 'mysql_use_result()' is faster than the default 'mysql_store_result' and it uses less memory, but nothing comes without a price, and in this case, it's pretty stiff. You can't do anything with your database connection until you are finished with your query. It blocks them all with a pseudo-cryptic but insightful error message:      Commands out of sync; You can't run this command now Fortunately, that one is in the docs (20.4.10).

So, what I have done is created a special DBI database handle for that one query, and one for the others so that I can still INSERT, DELETE and what have you, without waiting for the big 'SELECT *' to finish. At least I don't have to pay per connection!

In reply to Re^2: DBI + 'SELECT *' - Memory Use Galore? by tadman
in thread DBI + 'SELECT *' - Memory Use Galore? by tadman

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