Re: plpython issue with Win64 (PG 9.2) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 27/06/12 11:51, Asif Naeem wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Windows 7 64bit, plpython is causing server crash with the following
> test case i.e.
>
> CREATE PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE 'plpython3u';
>> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pymax (a integer, b integer)
>>    RETURNS integer
>> AS $$
>>    if a>  b:
>>      return a
>>    return b
>> $$ LANGUAGE plpython3u;
>> SELECT pymax(1, 2);

>
> I think primary reason that trigger this issue is when Function
> PLyUnicode_Bytes() calls "PyUnicode_AsEncodedString( ,WIN1252 /*Server
> encoding*/, ) " it fails with null. I built latest pg 9.2 source code with
> python 3.2.2.3 by using Visual Studio 2010. Thanks.

I'll try to reproduce this on Linux, which should be possible given the 
results of your investigation.

Cheers,
Jan