> 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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org