"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
>> There's been some past speculation about putting in a function call
>> nesting depth limit, but I haven't been able to think of any reasonable
>> way to estimate a safe limit.
> GUC variable? Hmm...but that would mean that a normal user could still just
> crash the machine...?
Yeah, which makes it a bit pointless :-(. Too bad there's not any
portable way to get some behavior other than SIGSEGV for stack overflow.
regards, tom lane
