Re: Multiline plpython procedure

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Multiline plpython procedure
Date: 2005-01-21 06:30:30
Message-ID: 12633.1106289030@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> Egads. So the set of valid Python programs is different depending on what
> platform you're on? That's just, uhm, insane.

No quibble here.

> Incidentally, are we sure we've diagnosed this correctly? I'm discussing this
> with some Python developers and they're expressing skepticism. One just tried
> a quick test with a Python program containing a mixture of all three newline
> flavours and it ran fine.

He tried reading 'em from files, using Python's text-format-converting
file reader, no? See the test case posted up-thread, which demonstrates
that feeding a string directly to PyExec (or whatever its called)
produces newline-sensitive results.

regards, tom lane

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