starting a thread in a nother thread

[Stefan Behnel]

Richard Lamboj, 27.01.2010 15:23:
> Am Wednesday 27 January 2010 14:10:13 schrieb Stefan Behnel:
>> Richard Lamboj, 27.01.2010 14:06:
>>> just for _curiosity_. What would be if i start a thread in a nother
>>> thread and acquire a lock in the "child" thread. Is there anything that
>>> could go wrong if someone try to start threads in threads?
>> There's usually tons of things that can go wrong w.r.t. threads:
>>
>> http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-1.pdf
>>
>> However, there's nothing special to a thread that was started from another
>> thread, so the problems don't change.
> 
> i have tried a little bit around with psycopg2 and threads,
> 
> I'am sharing one connection for all threads. When i'am starting the 
> threads "normal" everything works without any Problem. When i'am starting the 
> threads from another thread than i got a "segmentation fault"

Sounds like a bug that you might want to report to the maintainers of psycopg2.

Stefan