I haven't been following this thread closely, but if I understand
correctly then the problems are the result of linking PostgreSQL
against libc_r instead of libc on FreeBSD (at least FreeBSD 4.x),
which was done in an attempt to make plpythonu work. Otherwise
attempting to createlang plpythonu results in the following error:
createlang: language installation failed:
ERROR: could not load library "/usr/local/pgsql80/lib/plpython.so":
dlopen '/usr/local/pgsql80/lib/plpython.so' failed.
(/usr/local/lib/python2.4/config/libpython2.4.so: Undefined symbol "pthread_attr_destroy")
Is that right?
What I'm about to describe is a hack and it's probably wrong and
dangerous, but I did it as an experiment anyway to see what would
happen. I'm in no way suggesting that anybody should try it except
on a test server that can tolerate failure and data corruption.
I created a .so file with stub versions of the missing functions
and used preload_libraries to load it into the PostgreSQL backend.
I built PostgreSQL "normally", i.e., without linking against libc_r.
It worked, at least in simple tests.
Pthreads functions generally return 0 on success or some errno value
on failure. Most functions have EINVAL as a documented return value,
so I wrote all of the stub versions to return EINVAL -- I figured that
they should report failure instead of success because they don't
actually do anything. I also used ereport() to log the fact that a
function was called.
CREATE FUNCTION foo(integer) RETURNS integer AS $$
return args[0]
$$ LANGUAGE plpythonu IMMUTABLE STRICT;
SELECT foo(1234);
NOTICE: sem_init() called
NOTICE: sem_wait() called
NOTICE: sem_post() called
NOTICE: pthread_self() called
...
foo
------
1234
(1 row)
The stub functions are called only when the language handler is
first loaded -- subsequent calls to plpythonu functions don't print
any of the notices, at least not that I've seen so far:
SELECT foo(5678);
foo
------
5678
(1 row)
It's interesting that although all of the stub functions report
failure, the code runs anyway. It makes one wonder how thorough
the error checking is.
My pthread_phony.so file contains stub versions of the following
functions; all were required to stop the linker from complaining:
pthread_attr_destroy
pthread_attr_init
pthread_attr_setstacksize
pthread_create
pthread_detach
pthread_self
sem_destroy
sem_init
sem_post
sem_trywait
sem_wait
Again, this was nothing more than an experiment, and so far I've
done only a few simple tests. It could very well cause the system
to crash and burn. Don't try it unless you can afford to have your
database trashed.
--
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
