>> What you don't see here is that you're using your psql process's >> available open file handles as a stack, and when you hit that limit psql >> will fail. If you remove that limit, then you get a bit further before psql >> segfaults on you. I think I got ~2700 files deep before that happened. Your >> stackage may vary. >> >> I'm not saying this is a good solution, quite the contrary. I think the >> sane solution is right around the corner in Version 11. >> >> Now if we just had a way of passing parameters into DO blocks... >> > > I hope so there will be schema (temporal) variables: > > create temp variable foo int default 10; > > do $$ > begin > for i in 1..foo loop > raise notice '%', i; > end loop; > end; > $$; >
That would be nice too. A while back, somebody explained why implementing parameters in a DO block was so hard, but I don't recall why, and the search terms "do" and "parameter" don't really narrow things down.
