Re: [HACKERS] WITH RECURSIVE patch V0.1

Gregory Stark <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.patches,gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.general
Organization EnterpriseDB
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Joshua D. Drake" <[email protected]> writes:

>> >> Couldn't we just have it pay attention to the existing
>> >> max_stack_depth?
>> >
>> > Recursive query does not consume stack. The server enters an infinite
>> > loop without consuming stack. Stack-depth error does not happen.
>> 
>> We could have a separate guc variable which limits the maximum number of
>> levels of recursive iterations. That might be a useful feature for DBAs that
>> want to limit their users from issuing an infinite query.
>
> statement_timeout :)

Good point.

Though it occurs to me that if you set FETCH_COUNT in psql (or do the
equivalent in your code ) statement_timeout becomes much less useful.

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