On 2010-05-05, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > The problem is there's no real support inside psql for "throwing an > error" --- we have to unwind all the state manually. In particular, > what this problem requires is backing out the stack of flex buffers > representing pending variable expansions. So I think we need to add > an explicit recursion test and suppress further expansion of the > variable when we see it, but there's no very simple way to just abandon > the current command altogether.
having not examined the code I immagine something like this could work. fputs(stgerr,"recursive expansion\n"); raise(SIGINT); return ""; > We can definitely print a message though, and I agree that just silently > suppressing recursion would be confusing. -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs