Re: Fwd: Infinite recursion in function causes DoS

Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi PostgreSQL hackers!
>
> We recently received and discussed a Debian bug report agains
> postgresql. If you have time, please have a look at
>
>   http://bugs.debian.org/239811
>
> In short it was requested to limit the depth of (recursive) function
> calls to prevent database crashes. Would it be possible to do that in
> PostgreSQL? This depth should be configurable in

This will be fixed in 7.5 with a new max_stack_depth configuration
varible.

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