That is correct. The onus is always on the method caller to release via FDO_SAFE_RELEASE or automatically via FdoPtr - Jackie -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Memory-management-and-FdoPtr-tp4968699p4973896.html Sent from the FDO Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.