Re: SIGSEGV on cvs tip/7.3.2

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: "Joe Conway" <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, "Hackers (PostgreSQL)" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SIGSEGV on cvs tip/7.3.2
Date: 2003-05-28 18:38:50
Message-ID: 5526.1054147130@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>> There's been some past speculation about putting in a function call
>> nesting depth limit, but I haven't been able to think of any reasonable
>> way to estimate a safe limit.

> GUC variable? Hmm...but that would mean that a normal user could still just
> crash the machine...?

Yeah, which makes it a bit pointless :-(. Too bad there's not any
portable way to get some behavior other than SIGSEGV for stack overflow.

regards, tom lane

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