Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Buildfarm bobcat is broken running the pltcl regression tests - see http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=bobcat&dt=2008-06-15%2022:43:01

and I have reproduced this on Fedora 9 myself. This distro has Tcl 8.5.1.

Hoo, nasty.  Tcl_GetVar() is resetting interp->result.  Not sure why
we didn't see this before ... maybe it didn't use to?  Anyway, the
order of execution in

        ereport(ERROR,
                (errmsg("%s", interp->result),
                 errcontext("%s\nin PL/Tcl function \"%s\"",
                            UTF_U2E(Tcl_GetVar(interp, "errorInfo",
                                               TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY)),
                            prodesc->user_proname)));

is machine-dependent, which explains why I didn't see it on HPPA.

According to the manual page that's only supposed to happen if the TCL_LEAVE_ERR_MSG flag is used:


TCL_LEAVE_ERR_MSG
If an error is returned and this bit is set in flags, then an
error message will be left in the interpreter’s result, where it
can be retrieved with Tcl_GetObjResult or Tcl_GetStringResult.
If this flag bit isn’t set then no error message is left and the
interpreter’s result will not be modified.


So this looks like a bug. I guess we could work around it by saving out interp->result first. As you say, nasty.


cheers

andrew

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