Re: CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS regression instability

Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> Another avenue could be to make ParseFuncOrColumn et al use less stack,
> and hope that it avoids the problem. It's a bit insane that we use this
> much.

That would only reduce the chance of getting a stack overflow there,
and not by that much, especially not for a CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS animal
which is going to be doing catalog accesses inside there too.

> We don't have to go there in this case, but I've before wondered about
> adding helpers that use an on-stack var for small allocations, and falls
> back to palloc otherwise. Something boiling down to:

Seems like that adds a lot of potential for memory leakage?

regards, tom lane