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What happens when you hit the recursion limit?


Asked by Samira Lindsey on Dec 10, 2021 FAQ



If you are hitting the recursion limit, you either have considerable depth in sponsoring relationships or a loop in the data. A query like the following will detect loops and terminate the recursion: Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow! Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research! But avoid …
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Recursion (which isn’t optimised away in Python under any circumstances) uses a stack frame for each level of call. In other languages if you recurse too much you can generate a memory collision, based on the memory within your application and the stack allocated to it.
One may also ask, You set the maximum recursion depth to have no limit using the MAXRECURSION query hint (a value of 0) and crash your server due to an infinite loop. You reach a maximum recursion depth that you manually control in your query. Obviously, some of these cases have a more desirable outcome than others.
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This is done to avoid a stack overflow. The Python interpreter limits the recursion limit so that infinite recursions are avoided. The “sys” module in Python provides a function called setrecursionlimit () to modify the recursion limit in Python. It takes one parameter, the value of the new recursion limit.
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Consider a program to compute the factorial of a number using recursion. When given a large input, the program crashes and gives a “maximum recursion depth exceeded error”. Using the setrecursionlimit () method, we can increase the recursion limit and the program can be executed without errors even on large inputs.