Added script to demonstrate the refcount bug during copy

from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711095
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"""
A script to reproduce the race condition described in ticket #58
from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711095
Results in the error:
python: Modules/gcmodule.c:277: visit_decref: Assertion `gc->gc.gc_refs != 0'
failed.
on unpatched library.
"""
import threading
import gc
import time
import psycopg2
from StringIO import StringIO
done = 0
class GCThread(threading.Thread):
# A thread that sits in an infinite loop, forcing the garbage collector
# to run
def run(self):
global done
while not done:
gc.collect()
time.sleep(0.1) # give the other thread a chance to run
gc_thread = GCThread()
# This assumes a pre-existing db named "test", with:
# "CREATE TABLE test (id serial PRIMARY KEY, num integer, data varchar);"
conn = psycopg2.connect("dbname=test user=postgres")
cur = conn.cursor()
# Start the other thread, running the GC regularly
gc_thread.start()
# Now do lots of "cursor.copy_from" calls:
for i in range(1000):
f = StringIO("42\tfoo\n74\tbar\n")
cur.copy_from(f, 'test', columns=('num', 'data'))
# Assuming the other thread gets a chance to run during this call, expect a
# build of python (with assertions enabled) to bail out here with:
# python: Modules/gcmodule.c:277: visit_decref: Assertion `gc->gc.gc_refs != 0' failed.
# Terminate the GC thread's loop:
done = 1
cur.close()
conn.close()