Re: Default of max_stack_depth and getrlimit

From: "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Default of max_stack_depth and getrlimit
Date: 2008-07-21 15:23:39
Message-ID: 4884A9FB.7000505@enterprisedb.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "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?

No, but I would think it's safe to assume that "unlimited" is greater
than 2MB.

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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