Re: testing plpython3u on 9.0beta2

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Chris <rfusca(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: testing plpython3u on 9.0beta2
Date: 2010-06-29 00:19:28
Message-ID: 1277770768.27966.6.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On fre, 2010-06-25 at 18:57 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On fre, 2010-06-25 at 23:44 +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> > Has anybody actually researched if it is safe to run python2 and
> > python3 in the same address space?
>
> You can't run plpython2 and plpython3 in the same session, because the
> libraries are loaded with dlopen(RTLD_GLOBAL) (with RTLD_LOCAL it would
> apparently work). But you can use them in different sessions on the
> same database, for example.

By the way, I thought there had been some discussion about this in the
past, but I couldn't find it ...

Why are we using RTLD_GLOBAL?

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