"Matt Magoffin" <postgresql(dot)org(at)msqr(dot)us> writes:
>> Ugh. Sounds like "small memory leak inside libxml2" --- probably not
>> going to be easy to find. Can you put together a self-contained test
>> case?
> OK, I'll try to come up with something. Do you have a recommended way of
> capturing the amount memory being used by Postgres related to this? I was
> thinking I would have a plpgsql function that loops a large number of
> times, calling a few xpath() calls,
Yeah, that's what I'd try first.
regards, tom lane