From: Fabian Peters <fabian@ngi.de>
To: PostgreSQL Interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: PL/Tcl: internal error - cannot create 'normal'
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:31:07 +0200
Message-ID: <BAD315DB.9089%fabian@ngi.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4873.1051238452@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tom, Jan,
thanks for your feedback! I suspect there might be a problem with the OS X
way of linking. Right now I don't have the time to investigate this any
further. But I'll have to get back to it in a couple of weeks and will keep
you posted...
cheers
Fabian
> 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...
>
> regards, tom lane
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