Paul Turton <n...@uber-force.co.uk> writes:
> Looking at the source code it appears that the maximum stack limit is hard
> coded as 4194304 bytes for Windows builds. My query is why this number was
> picked? Is it to do with the maximum size the Windows Kernel will allow?
> Could I just increase the number and re-compile, or would that break other
> things?
A bit of "git blame" archaeology says that that traces back to
commit bf7737a938827608ce79586efe55c642c1a4a7d3
Author: Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Wed Jan 26 21:55:26 2005 +0000
On Windows, set the postmaster executable's stack size to 4MB, so that
it agrees with the default value of max_stack_depth.
So yeah, you could probably increase it in a custom build. However,
I question a bit why you think you need to. IME hardly anyone ever
fools with max_stack_depth, on any platform.
regards, tom lane
