| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Gareth Boden <gareth(dot)boden(at)egsgroup(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Unpredictable signal 11 crashes on Mac OS X (SOLVED[?]) |
| Date: | 2003-10-14 00:32:22 |
| Message-ID: | 4021.1066091542@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Gareth Boden <gareth(dot)boden(at)egsgroup(dot)com> writes:
> Bizarrely, it came down to an infinite recursion in a plpgsql function
> we were using which exhausted memory and crashed the db server. Is
> there any way of limiting stack depth/having some sort of monitor on
> these functions to prevent this behaviour in future?
There's been some talk of this, but the sticking point has been to
figure out a reasonably portable way to measure and enforce stack
usage...
regards, tom lane
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