Re: docs: outdated reference to recursive expression evaluation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: docs: outdated reference to recursive expression evaluation
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Msg-id 30253.1544286631@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to docs: outdated reference to recursive expression evaluation  (John Naylor <jcnaylor@gmail.com>)
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John Naylor <jcnaylor@gmail.com> writes:
> In confg.sgml, in the section about max_stack_depth, there's this sentence:
> "The safety margin is needed because the stack depth is not checked in
> every routine in the server, but only in key potentially-recursive
> routines such as expression evaluation."

> Since the change in expression evaluation in v10, there's probably a
> better example of recursive routines, but I'm not sure what that would
> be.

We could say "expression compilation" and it'd still be valid.  Or just
drop the last four words altogether.  I don't think we want to expend the
verbiage to be more precise here, since it's only a tangential point.

BTW, while looking at this I noted that copyfuncs.c has a
check_stack_depth call but outfuncs, readfuncs, equalfuncs don't.
Surely that's not good.

            regards, tom lane


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