Peter Geoghegan <pe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > Should we have an optional, disabled-by-default limit on the > recursion/iteration depth of recursive CTEs to guard against stupid > queries that loop ad infinitum?
I think not ... > I'd suggest that an appropriate interface would be an int GUC with a > GucContext of PGC_SUSET, so that DBAs can impose system-wide limits. ... and that would be a seriously bad API. There are not SUSET restrictions on other resources such as work_mem. Why do we need one for this? By and large, this sounds like a solution looking for a problem. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers