Re: Recursive PLPGSQL function?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DeJuan Jackson [mailto:djackson(at)speedfc(dot)com]
> Sent: 04 August 2004 17:56
> To: Mark Cave-Ayland
> Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Recursive PLPGSQL function?
>
>
> If I'm not mistaken you have an infinit recursion because you
> are always
> pulling the same id (whatever _id starts at) throughout each
> function call.
>
> Postgres is most likely killing the functions when it's hits
> some stack
> or memory limit.

Ahhh yes I got it now :) I was pulling in the wrong field from the inner
nested record set which was causing it to call itself as you suggested.
I did suspect this and put a RAISE NOTICE at the beginning of the
function to try and debug it, but the message was only displayed perhaps
once every several hundred lines of output between many "CONTEXT:
PL/pgSQL function "findsubcategories" line 15 at for over" messages,
which made me think that something was being overwritten in the
recursion (for an infinite recursion I would have expected the screen to
fill with hundreds of RAISE NOTICE message until something died).

Anyway, it all seems to be working now - thanks very much for the help.

Mark.

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