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execute() seems to not close the DB connection properly

See original GitHub issue

Specifically, when executing Count queries on views:

q = 'SELECT count(*) AS count_1 FROM view_xyz123'

eng = sa.Engine('psql_settings`) # connect to a Postgresql db 

result = eng.execute(sa.text(q))

Despite close_with_result always being set to True in execute(), I am seeing open connections stack up in PSQL when running this repeatedly.

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:8 (4 by maintainers)

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edwardkwcommented, Nov 13, 2019

@zzzeek Just wanted to thank you very much for your help, especially as this wasn’t necessarily a proper bug.

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zzzeekcommented, Nov 13, 2019

turn off pooling as documented at https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/13/core/pooling.html#switching-pool-implementations

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