Re: After 10 -> 15 upgrade getting "cannot commit while a portal is pinned" on one python function

On 3/27/24 16:35, Rob Sargent wrote:
> 
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> On 3/27/24 17:05, Jeff Ross wrote:
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>> On 3/27/24 15:44, Tom Lane wrote:
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>>> Perhaps "pinned" in the error message means "open"?
>>> No, it means "pinned" ... but I see that plpython pins the portal
>>> underlying any PLyCursor object it creates.  Most of our PLs do
>>> that too, to prevent a portal from disappearing under them (e.g.
>>> if you were to try to close the portal directly from SQL rather
>>> than via whatever mechanism the PL wants you to use).
>>>
>>>> I added a cursor.close() as the last line called in that function and it
>>>> works again.
>>> It looks to me like PLy_cursor_close does pretty much exactly the same
>>> cleanup as PLy_cursor_dealloc, including unpinning and closing the
>>> underlying portal.  I'm far from a Python expert, but I suspect that
>>> the docs you quote intend to say "cursors are disposed of when Python
>>> garbage-collects them", and that the reason your code is failing is
>>> that there's still a reference to the PLyCursor somewhere after the
>>> plpython function exits, perhaps in a Python global variable.
>>>
>>>             regards, tom lane
>>>
>>>
>> Thank you for your reply, as always, Tom!
>>
>> Debugging at this level might well be over my paygrade ;-)
>>
>> I just happy that the function works again, and that I was able to 
>> share a solution to this apparently rare error with the community.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
> My read of Tom's reply suggests you still have work to do to find the 
> other "reference" holding on to your cursor.

I would start with:

def logging(comment):
     global database
     <...>

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Adrian Klaver
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