Re: plpython improvements

Sven Suursoho wrote:
> Sun, 30 Apr 2006 19:14:28 +0300, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
>
> > "Sven Suursoho" <sven(at)spam(dot)pri(dot)ee> writes:
> >> Unfortunately, there is still one problem when using unpatched python,
> >> caused by too aggressive assert.
> >> See
> >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-checkins/2005-August/046571.html.
> >> I guess there should be warning somewhere as Hannu said but didn't know
> >> where to put it.
> >
> > I don't think we are going to be able to accept a patch that causes the
> > server to crash when using any but a bleeding-edge copy of Python.
>
> Actually normal python installations do not cause problem, only debugging
> versions do.
>
> Anyway, if you think that this doesn't count as an argument, there is
> nothing that we can do from PG-side except drop returning SETOF as
> iterator/generator and only allow return SETOF as list.

Can't we detect a debug build and disable the feature?

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