Re: Python 2.7 deprecated the PyCObject API?

On tis, 2010-08-17 at 21:48 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On tis, 2010-08-17 at 20:55 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On fre, 2010-08-13 at 20:20 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > According to a discussion over in Fedora-land, $subject is true:
> > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-August/140995.html
> > > 
> > > I see several calls in plpython.c that seem to refer to PyCObject
> > > stuff.
> > > Anybody have any idea if we need to do something about this?
> > 
> > Some exception handling might be good, but I think we don't need to
> > abandon the API yet.  It's only "pending deprecation".
> 
> Here is a patch.  The crash is reproducible, if warnings are turned into
> errors.

I have applied this patch back to 8.0.  7.4's plpython crashes with
Python >= 2.5; it's probably not worth rescuing.