> 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.  The stack size limit varies a lot across
> different platforms, and the amount of stack space consumed per PL
> function call level seems hard to estimate too.  We do have a nesting
> depth limit for expressions, which is intended specifically to avoid
> stack overflow during expression eval --- but the amount of stack chewed
> per expression level is relatively small and predictable.

GUC variable?  Hmm...but that would mean that a normal user could still just
crash the machine...?

Chris


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