Avoid deep recursion when assigning XIDs to multiple levels of subxacts.

Backpatch to 8.0.

Andres Freund, with cleanup and adjustment for older branches by me.

diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c
index d125738b4c8c2145538df0f771d8e93a9911b4bc..7bb7804dabb52d67032701d5d04f137ce0d01156 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *       $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c,v 1.293 2010/07/06 19:18:55 momjian Exp $
+ *       $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c,v 1.294 2010/07/23 00:43:00 rhaas Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -408,10 +408,32 @@ AssignTransactionId(TransactionState s)
 
        /*
         * Ensure parent(s) have XIDs, so that a child always has an XID later
-        * than its parent.
+        * than its parent.  Musn't recurse here, or we might get a stack overflow
+        * if we're at the bottom of a huge stack of subtransactions none of which
+        * have XIDs yet.
         */
        if (isSubXact && !TransactionIdIsValid(s->parent->transactionId))
-               AssignTransactionId(s->parent);
+       {
+               TransactionState        p = s->parent;
+               TransactionState   *parents;
+               size_t  parentOffset = 0;
+
+               parents = palloc(sizeof(TransactionState) *  s->nestingLevel);
+               while (p != NULL && !TransactionIdIsValid(p->transactionId))
+               {
+                       parents[parentOffset++] = p;
+                       p = p->parent;
+               }
+
+               /*
+                * This is technically a recursive call, but the recursion will
+                * never be more than one layer deep.
+                */
+               while (parentOffset != 0)
+                       AssignTransactionId(parents[--parentOffset]);
+
+               pfree(parents);
+       }
 
        /*
         * Generate a new Xid and record it in PG_PROC and pg_subtrans.