From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Fabian Peters <fabian@ngi.de>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: PL/Tcl: internal error - cannot create 'normal' interpreter
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 22:22:31 -0400
Message-ID: <3EA9ED67.354FBDC2@Yahoo.com> (raw)
References: <BACDA67C.8F68%fabian@ngi.de>
<4873.1051238452@sss.pgh.pa.us>
I cannot think of any reason why it would fail to create the 'normal'
interpreter after successfully creating the 'hold' one ... so CC me on
that please.
Jan
Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Fabian Peters <fabian@ngi.de> writes:
> >> ERROR: pltcl: internal error - cannot create 'normal' interpreter
>
> > Any ideas as to what might be the problem or how to get some more detailed
> > info greatly appreciated...
>
> Apparently Tcl_CreateSlave() is failing. Although it doesn't say so on
> its man page, it seems likely to me that the parent interpreter's result
> would be set to a possibly-useful error message. You might try adding
> code to pltcl.c to add the "hold" interpreter's result to this error
> message.
>
> We've heard other reports of strange failures involving Tcl_CreateSlave,
> but AFAIR the other ones prevented pltcl.so from even getting linked.
> If you learn anything I'd like to hear about it...
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