ERROR : cannot commit while a portal is pinned from plpython

[Ludwig Isaac Lim <ludz_lim@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello:

I noticed the following lines in my PostgreSQL log file today:

2022-12-01 14:16:54.517 UTC [10073] ERROR:  cannot commit while a portal is pinned
2022-12-01 14:16:54.517 UTC [10073] STATEMENT:  call p_annotate_db_stats()



The process ID can be traced to plpython procedure call.

What is baffling is there's no commit (or rollback) inside the stored procedure call.

The notable changes I made to the stored procedure is:

adding this block of code

try:
      --processing stuff
except:
       exc_type, exc_value, tb = sys.exc_info()
       if tb is None:
              print("No exception / traceback information", file=sys.stderr)
              sys.exit(-1)
       prev = tb
       curr = tb.tb_next
       while curr is not None:
              prev = curr
              curr = curr.tb_next
       print(prev.tb_frame.f_locals, file=sys.stderr)
       traceback.print_exception(*sys.exc_info())
       print("Exiting", file=sys.stderr)



The stored procedure is executed via psql call using the following command in bash:
  nohup psql -c "call p_annotate_db_stats()" &


Postgresql version :  PostgreSQL 14.6 on aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 7.3.1 20180712 (Red Hat 7.3.1-15), 64-bit



Python version : Python 3.7.10

What could be the cause of the error? Thank you.



Regards,
Ludwig Lim