There are many questions on SO about CursorWindowAllocatoinException:
- SQLite Android Database Cursor window allocation of 2048 kb failed
- Could not allocate CursorWindow
- Out of Memory when allocating cursors
- Android SQLite CursorWindowAllocationException crash
All of them suggest that cursor must be closed after use. But that did not resolve my problem. Here is my code:
String query = "select serial from tbl1 union select serial from tbl2 union select serial from tbl3";
SQLiteDatabase db = null;
Cursor cur = null;
try {
SettingsDatabaseHelper dal = new SettingsDatabaseHelper(
c);
db = dal.getReadableDatabase();
cur = db.rawQuery(query, null);
int numRows = cur.getCount();
if (numRows > 0) {
cur.moveToFirst();
int serialIdx = cur.getColumnIndexOrThrow("serial");
for (boolean hasItem = cur.moveToFirst(); hasItem; hasItem = cur
.moveToNext()) {
String serial = cur.getString(serialIdx);
if (Validator.getInstance().isValidSerial(serial))
serials.add(serial);
}
}
} finally {
if (cur != null)
cur.close();
if (db != null)
db.close();
}
I run this method every few seconds. After half an hour, I get CursorWindowAllocationException
in int numRows=cur.getCount();
and then my service stops.
Since I am closing the cursor, there may be a problem with my Helper class. Here is the code:
public class SettingsDatabaseHelper extends SQLiteOpenHelper {
private static final String DATABASE_NAME = "mydb.db";
private static final int DATABASE_VERSION = 1;
private static final String TBL_CREATE="create table...";
public SettingsDatabaseHelper(Context context) {
super(context, DATABASE_NAME, null, DATABASE_VERSION);
}
@Override
public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase database) {
database.execSQL(TBL_CREATE);
}
@Override
public void onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase db, int oldVersion, int newVersion) {
onCreate(db);
}
}
How can I prevent this exception from being thrown?