Re: Unpredictable signal 11 crashes on Mac OS X (SOLVED[?])

Gareth Boden <gareth.boden@egsgroup.com> writes:
> Bizarrely, it came down to an infinite recursion in a plpgsql function
> we were using which exhausted memory and crashed the db server. Is
> there any way of limiting stack depth/having some sort of monitor on
> these functions to prevent this behaviour in future?

There's been some talk of this, but the sticking point has been to
figure out a reasonably portable way to measure and enforce stack
usage...

            regards, tom lane