Re: PL/Python: No stack trace for an exception

On 21 July 2011 14:27, Sushant Sinha <sushant354@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using plpythonu on postgres 9.0.2. One of my python functions was
> throwing a TypeError exception. However, I only see the exception in the
> database and not the stack trace. It becomes difficult to debug if the
> stack trace is absent in Python.
>
> logdb=# select get_words(forminput) from fi;
> ERROR:  PL/Python: TypeError: an integer is required
> CONTEXT:  PL/Python function "get_words"
>
>
> And here is the error if I run that function on the same data in python:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "valid.py", line 215, in <module>
>    parse_query(result['forminput'])
>  File "valid.py", line 132, in parse_query
>    dateobj = datestr_to_obj(columnHash[column])
>  File "valid.py", line 37, in datestr_to_obj
>    dateobj = datetime.date(words[2], words[1], words[0])
> TypeError: an integer is required
>
>
> Is this a known problem or this needs addressing?

Traceback information will be added to PL/Python errors in Postgres
9.1, due out in about September.

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