Re: pl/pythonu

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, C G wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Could anyone explain why this function does will not work? The error message
> is
> DETAIL: exceptions.RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded.
>
> CREATE FUNCTION testing() RETURNS trigger AS'
>
> plan=plpy.prepare(''INSERT INTO t1 values ($1)'',[''text''])
> plpy.execute(plan,[''blah''])
> return ''MODIFY''
>
> 'LANGUAGE plpythonu;

Perhaps the plpy.execute is inserting into the same table as the trigger
is on? If that's the case, then the trigger will be recursively called
over and over until the "maximum recursion depth" is "exceeded".