Re: PLy_malloc and plperl mallocs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: PLy_malloc and plperl mallocs
Date
Msg-id 22139.1290963021@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: PLy_malloc and plperl mallocs  (Jan Urbański <wulczer@wulczer.org>)
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Jan Urbański <wulczer@wulczer.org> writes:
> I'll do that for PL/Python for now. While on the topic of needless FATAL
> errors, if you try to create a Python 3 function in a session that
> already loaded Python 2, you get a FATAL error with an errhint of

> Start a new session to use a different Python major version.

> If you raise a FATAL error, you don't really have much choice than to
> start a new session, since the current one just got nuked, no? Should
> this be an ERROR?

I believe we decided that it had to be FATAL because the session could
no longer be trusted to execute functions of the other python version
either.  Check the archives from when that patch was put in.
        regards, tom lane


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