Re: can't load plpython

Tom Lane escreveu:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> ... However, on HEAD this is crashing for me, and it's right when plpython
>> loads. Backtrace below.
>
> Does plpython pass its regression tests for you (I'd suppose not)?
>
> For me on Fedora 10 x86_64, CVS HEAD plus python 2.5.2 passes regression
> but the given example still dumps core. postmaster log says
>
> postgres: tgl regression [local] SELECT: Objects/stringobject.c:107: PyString_FromString: Assertion `str != ((void *)0)' failed.
> LOG: server process (PID 4714) was terminated by signal 6: Aborted
> LOG: terminating any other active server processes
>
PyString_FromString() [1] fails to return something useful, i.e, null pointer
when its argument is null. The trivial fix (that is attached) is to ensure
that we don't pass a null pointer as the second argument of
PyDict_SetItemString(). Of course, it's a Python bug and I filled it [3].

>> Obviously I don't know Python to fix it :-)
>
> Me either. Something is pretty bad in python-land, it seems.
>
Me either. ;)

[1]
http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Objects/stringobject.c?revision=70682&view=markup
[2]
http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Objects/dictobject.c?revision=70550&view=markup
[3] http://bugs.python.org/issue5627

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