Re: pgsql: plpython: Add SPI cursor support

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
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> On 12/14/2011 06:43 PM, Jan Urbański wrote:
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>> ----- Original message -----
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>>> On 12/05/2011 12:56 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
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>>>> plpython: Add SPI cursor support
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>>>> Add a function plpy.cursor that is similar to plpy.execute but uses an
>>>> SPI cursor to avoid fetching the entire result set into memory.
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>>>> Jan Urbański, reviewed by Steve Singer
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>>> This commit apparently caused a problem on buildfarm narwhal, which has
>>> been failing for 8 days without anyone paying attention. See
>>> <http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=narwhal&dt=2011-12-14%2017%3A00%3A02>:
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>> I did some investigation after this has been committed and couldn't come up with a reasonable explanation (not at my PC at the moment, can't find the relevant thread).
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>> Can we check if PyObject_SelfIter is defined in Include/object.h in the Python install dir on that machine? If yes, then this looks like a MinGW quirk, which I'll do my best to investigate, but I don't have easy access to a Windows machine with a mingw toolchain...
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> Dave,
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> this is your machine. It's been failing for 34 days now. Could you please follow up?

Yes, it's defined as such:

PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyObject_SelfIter(PyObject *);

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