Re: Stack overflow issue

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
Cc: Egor Chindyaskin <kyzevan23(at)mail(dot)ru>, Sascha Kuhl <yogidabanli(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Stack overflow issue
Date: 2024-01-05 17:23:25
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYQvB0fWJcD1DwBXgRnRFtSyRCepCTH4K3Pf7Bg0FJtKg@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 10:47 AM Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
> What do you think?

At least for 0001 and 0002, I think we should just add the stack depth checks.

With regard to 0001, CommitTransactionCommand() and friends are hard
enough to understand as it is; they need "goto" like I need an extra
hole in my head.

With regard to 0002, this function isn't sufficiently important to
justify adding special-case code for an extremely rare event. We
should just handle it the way we do in general.

I agree that in the memory-context case it might be worth expending
some more code to be more clever. But I probably wouldn't do that for
MemoryContextStats(); check_stack_depth() seems fine for that one.

In general, I think we should try to keep the number of places that
handle stack overflow in "special" ways as small as possible.

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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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