Documentation: Use of chrono under MSVC can cause a large memory leak

[SpareSimian]

FYI Using MySQL datetime support with STL and C++20 can result in a memory leak being reported under MSVC. The timezone database (tzdb) is initialized in a way that's not protected from the debugger's leak detector.

A workaround is offered here: microsoft/STL#2504

More on the problem here: microsoft/STL#2047

I put the workaround in my wxApp::OnExit handler and the leak no longer floods the debug output.

#ifdef _DEBUG
   // to prevent the tzdb allocations from being reported as memory leaks
   std::chrono::get_tzdb_list().~tzdb_list();
#endif

[anarthal]

So if I understood correctly, this is a problem in MSVC STL that won't get fixed at all, isn't it? What can we do in MySQL about it? Maybe add the info you provided to the documentation to guide other users encountering it?

[anarthal]

I just saw the issue title :)