pgsql: Add support for detecting register-stack overrun on IA64.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Add support for detecting register-stack overrun on IA64.
Date: 2010-11-07 03:00:11
Message-ID: E1PEvUJ-0002V7-36@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Add support for detecting register-stack overrun on IA64.

Per recent investigation, the register stack can grow faster than the
regular stack depending on compiler and choice of options. To avoid
crashes we must check both stacks in check_stack_depth().

Back-patch to all supported versions.

Branch
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REL8_2_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=50eac30c8d09a3a1dab58ab299a363eca71610e8

Modified Files
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src/backend/tcop/postgres.c | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

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