X-Original-To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org Received: from spampd.localdomain (postgresql.org [64.49.215.8]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D062475D91 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 11:31:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from c000.snv.cp.net (h007.c000.snv.cp.net [209.228.32.71]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4DF48474E42 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 11:31:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: (cpmta 20653 invoked from network); 28 Apr 2003 08:31:13 -0700 Received: from 80.142.199.56 (HELO ?10.0.0.2?) by smtp.peters.net (209.228.32.71) with SMTP; 28 Apr 2003 08:31:13 -0700 X-Sent: 28 Apr 2003 15:31:13 GMT User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:31:07 +0200 Subject: Re: PL/Tcl: internal error - cannot create 'normal' From: Fabian Peters To: PostgreSQL Interfaces Cc: Tom Lane , Jan Wieck Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4873.1051238452@sss.pgh.pa.us> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-18.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_01,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,USER_AGENT_ENTOURAGE autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) X-Archive-Number: 200304/172 X-Sequence-Number: 4111 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 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