altaurog

import os
"""
Get PID of n'th parent
This works in linux only
"""

def pnid(n=1, pid=os.getpid()):
    for i in range(n):
        try:
            procfile = open("/proc/%s/status" % pid)

altaurog

import logging
import os
import sys
import time
import threading
import psycopg2

"""
This script demonstrates the following race condition under PostgreSQL:
One connection, in transaction, drops table "mytable," then renames