diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 99546465b..96c708a80 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ path = "src/lib.rs"
 
 [features]
 default = ["std"]
-std = []
+std = ["stacker"]
 # Enable JSON output in the `cli` example:
 json_example = ["serde_json", "serde"]
 visitor = ["sqlparser_derive"]
@@ -48,10 +48,11 @@ bigdecimal = { version = "0.4.1", features = ["serde"], optional = true }
 log = "0.4"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"], optional = true }
 # serde_json is only used in examples/cli, but we have to put it outside
-# of dev-dependencies because of
+# dev-dependencies because of
 # https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/1596
 serde_json = { version = "1.0", optional = true }
 sqlparser_derive = { version = "0.2.0", path = "derive", optional = true }
+stacker = { version = "0.1.17", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 simple_logger = "5.0"
diff --git a/src/parser/mod.rs b/src/parser/mod.rs
index cd9be1d8f..20d6e61ab 100644
--- a/src/parser/mod.rs
+++ b/src/parser/mod.rs
@@ -65,6 +65,14 @@ mod recursion {
 
     use super::ParserError;
 
+    /// try to grow stack
+    fn maybe_grow() {
+        #[cfg(debug_assertions)]
+        stacker::maybe_grow(512 << 10, 8 << 20, || {});
+        #[cfg(not(debug_assertions))]
+        stacker::maybe_grow(128 << 10, 2 << 20, || {});
+    }
+
     /// Tracks remaining recursion depth. This value is decremented on
     /// each call to [`RecursionCounter::try_decrease()`], when it reaches 0 an error will
     /// be returned.
@@ -93,10 +101,12 @@ mod recursion {
         /// remaining depth upon drop;
         pub fn try_decrease(&self) -> Result<DepthGuard, ParserError> {
             let old_value = self.remaining_depth.get();
-            // ran out of space
+
             if old_value == 0 {
                 Err(ParserError::RecursionLimitExceeded)
             } else {
+                maybe_grow();
+
                 self.remaining_depth.set(old_value - 1);
                 Ok(DepthGuard::new(Rc::clone(&self.remaining_depth)))
             }