[ apologies if you see this twice I had put a wrong address in the first one ]
Phil Pennock:
> Is it known that when you do "sks dump <N> <dir>", you end up with up to
> 10 stack frames per N, plus the calls into the DB layer, etc?
[...]
> I was suspecting db problems, and it's not. Looks as though something
> was expecting tail recursion optimisation but not getting it. I really
> don't know enough about programming in functional languages to look into
> this properly. I don't even know if things like shuffling exception
> handling around would let the tail recursion optimisation kick in and
> where things like integrity of backup dumps are concerned, I play around
> less.
I highly suspect that the inside of a try block is not a tail position
and that "shuffling exception handling around" is the right thing to do
here. Try this.
Kim Minh.
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