In Eclipse I received a warning Resource leak: 'ps' is not closed at this location that I don't understand.

In my Java code I declare the "ps" as a Prepared Statement and I use (and close) it many times. Then I've the following sequence:

try {
    if(condition) {
        ps = c.prepareStatement("UPDATE 1 ...");
    } else {
        ps = c.prepareStatement("UPDATE 2 ...");
    }
    ps.executeUpdate();
} catch (SQLException e) {
    // exception handling
} finally {
    if (null != ps) 
        try { 
            ps.close(); 
        } catch (SQLException e) { 
            // exception handling
        };
}

The "Resource leak"-Warning comes on the "Update"-Statement in the else section. If I set ps = null before I start the try block, there is no warning.

If the second UPDATE-Statement is commented out, no warning will be shown.

Is that an understanding or a java / eclipse problem?

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