"Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> In 8.2, we started to use getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, ...) to set
> max_stack_depth automatically, to a max of 2MB:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg00389.php
> However, it's not behaving as I expected when the stack limit is set to
> "unlimited".
Is there really any such thing as "unlimited" stack depth? I think that
treating that as "unknown" is a good conservative thing to do, because
it is surely a lie.
regards, tom lane