Re: pgsql: plpython: Add SPI cursor support

On 01/09/2012 10:52 AM, Dave Page wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Andrew Dunstan<andrew@dunslane.net>  wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 12/14/2011 06:43 PM, Jan Urbański wrote:
>>> ----- Original message -----
>>>> On 12/05/2011 12:56 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>>>> plpython: Add SPI cursor support
>>>>>
>>>>> Add a function plpy.cursor that is similar to plpy.execute but uses an
>>>>> SPI cursor to avoid fetching the entire result set into memory.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jan Urbański, reviewed by Steve Singer
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> This commit apparently caused a problem on buildfarm narwhal, which has
>>>> been failing for 8 days without anyone paying attention. See
>>>> <http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=narwhal&dt=2011-12-14%2017%3A00%3A02>:
>>> I did some investigation after this has been committed and couldn't come up with a reasonable explanation (not at
myPC at the moment, can't find the relevant thread). 
>>>
>>> Can we check if PyObject_SelfIter is defined in Include/object.h in the Python install dir on that machine? If yes,
thenthis looks like a MinGW quirk, which I'll do my best to investigate, but I don't have easy access to a Windows
machinewith a mingw toolchain... 
>>
>> Dave,
>>
>> this is your machine. It's been failing for 34 days now. Could you please follow up?
> Yes, it's defined as such:
>
> PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyObject_SelfIter(PyObject *);
>
>
>

Hmm. Well, at this stage I'm slightly inclined to say it's a compiler
problem. That's a pretty old compiler. If you can't upgrade it maybe you
should just take --with-python out of the buildfarm settings.

cheers

andrew