Bug 45403

Bug: 45403

Impact:

Product:

GemStone/S 64 Bit

Versions:

3.2.16, 3.2.15, 3.2.14, 3.2.13, 3.2.12, 3.2.11, 3.2.10, 3.2.9, 3.2.8.1, 3.2.8, 3.2.7, 3.2.6, 3.2.5, 3.2.4, 3.2.3, 3.2.2, 3.2.1, 3.2

Platform:

All

Fixed In:

3.3

Symbol garbage collection not usable in v3.2.x

Symbol garbage collection is enabled by setting STN_SYMBOL_GC_ENABLED to TRUE, in versions 3.1 and later.  By default, this is false.  There are bugs in the primitive code supporting this option; it is unlikely to complete correctly with a non-trivial number of symbols or with some corner cases of symbol references.

Workaround

Do not enable symbol garbage collection; while there is slight overhead, GemStone will work correctly with unused symbols. Avoiding the creation of unnecessary symbols remains best practice, as in previous versions.

in v3.2.7, STN_SYMBOL_GC_ENABLED may not be set to TRUE.