Re: psycopg2 2.0.8 - segmentation fault

Karsten Hilbert <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:38:15 +0200

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Just a short thanks for your tracking down such issues.

Karsten

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 02:58:12AM +0530, Gangadharan S.A. wrote:

> > I managed to reproduce and fix the issue. This is happening because when
> > dealloc-ing, the "Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS;" in conn_close is letting other
> > threads launch the garbage collector which in turn ends up running the
> > dealloc a second time.
> >
> > The fix is to untrack the connnection object from GC, before going ahead
> > with dealloc, as said in http://docs.python.org/c-api/gcsupport.html

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