Re: bug or simply not enough stack space?

Frank van Vugt <ftm.van.vugt@foxi.nl> writes:
> So this took a while, but here's your test case.....
> Turns out to be quite small actually ;)

Hmm ... the relevant code change seems to have been
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2009-04/msg00127.php

I think I might have been overenthusiastic in trying to free resources
during a subtransaction abort.  Try this patch and see if you notice
any bad side-effects.

            regards, tom lane

Index: src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_exec.c
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_exec.c,v
retrieving revision 1.244
diff -c -r1.244 pl_exec.c
*** src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_exec.c    17 Jun 2009 13:46:12 -0000    1.244
--- src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_exec.c    17 Jul 2009 16:12:22 -0000
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*** 5292,5298 ****
      {
          SimpleEcontextStackEntry *next;

!         FreeExprContext(simple_econtext_stack->stack_econtext);
          next = simple_econtext_stack->next;
          pfree(simple_econtext_stack);
          simple_econtext_stack = next;
--- 5292,5299 ----
      {
          SimpleEcontextStackEntry *next;

!         if (event == SUBXACT_EVENT_COMMIT_SUB)
!             FreeExprContext(simple_econtext_stack->stack_econtext);
          next = simple_econtext_stack->next;
          pfree(simple_econtext_stack);
          simple_econtext_stack = next;