Re: stack depth limit exceeded

salah jubeh <s_jubeh(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I have written this function which is simply returns the entities which depends on a certain entity. It works fine if the
> dependency tree is not long. However, If I have an entity which are linked to many other entities I get
>
> stack depth limit exceeded
> HINT: Increase the configuration parameter "max_stack_depth", after ensuring the platform's stack depth limit is adequate.
>
> I wrote this function to know exactly what are the tables, views that will be doped if I use cascade option. I want to get
> around this issue without changing the server configuration

[snip]

I'd strongly suspect a case of infinite recursion. Have you ruled that
out first?>

You might try incrementing a sequence in the function during one of the
bad runs to see how deep it's recursing.

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