Posted by mudge on 11/12/07 04:19

In php documentation there is this note about mysqli_free_result():

Note: You should always free your result with mysqli_free_result(),
when your result object is not needed anymore.

With the similar non-mysqli function there is this note:

mysql_free_result() only needs to be called if you are concerned about
how much memory is being used for queries that return large result
sets. All associated result memory is automatically freed at the end
of the script's execution.

I'm just wondering why you need to free the result when using mysqli
and not when you are using mysql_free_result().

Does mysqli not automatically free resources when the php script
execution finishes?

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