Thread: pgsql: Check for stack overflow in transformSetOperationTree().

pgsql: Check for stack overflow in transformSetOperationTree().

From
Tom Lane
Date:
Check for stack overflow in transformSetOperationTree().

Since transformSetOperationTree() recurses, it can be driven to stack
overflow with enough UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT clauses in a query.  Add a
check to ensure it fails cleanly instead of crashing.  Per report from
Matthew Gerber (though it's not clear whether this is the only thing
going wrong for him).

Historical note: I think the reasoning behind not putting a check here in
the beginning was that the check in transformExpr() ought to be sufficient
to guard the whole parser.  However, because transformSetOperationTree()
recurses all the way to the bottom of the set-operation tree before doing
any analysis of the statement's expressions, that check doesn't save it.

Branch
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REL9_2_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/454edf1da9f36615b780b1cb216ae5d9fe8ba42c

Modified Files
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src/backend/parser/analyze.c |    4 ++++
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)