Re: BUG #5566: High levels of savepoint nesting trigger stack overflow in AssignTransactionId

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-bugs" <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Hans van Kranenburg <hans(dot)van(dot)kranenburg(at)mendix(dot)com>
Subject: Re: BUG #5566: High levels of savepoint nesting trigger stack overflow in AssignTransactionId
Date: 2010-07-19 17:58:30
Message-ID: 201007191958.31373.andres@anarazel.de
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Hi,

On Monday 19 July 2010 19:57:13 Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Andres Freund's message of lun jul 19 11:58:06 -0400 2010:
> > On Monday 19 July 2010 17:26:25 Hans van Kranenburg wrote:
> > > When issuing an update statement in a transaction with ~30800 levels of
> > > savepoint nesting, (which is insane, but possible), postgresql
> > > segfaults due to a stack overflow in the AssignTransactionId function,
> > > which recursively assign transaction ids to parent transactions.
> >
> > It seems easy enough to throw a check_stack_depth() in there - survives
> > make check here.
>
> I wonder if it would work to deal with the problem non-recursively
> instead. We don't impose subxact depth restrictions elsewhere, why
> start now?
It looks trivial enough, but whats the point?

Andres

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