Re: Memory use in 8.3 plpgsql with heavy use of xpath()

From: "Matt Magoffin" <postgresql(dot)org(at)msqr(dot)us>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Memory use in 8.3 plpgsql with heavy use of xpath()
Date: 2008-07-02 19:54:49
Message-ID: 49387.192.168.1.108.1215028489.squirrel@msqr.us
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> I looked through the libxml2 sources a little bit but couldn't
> immediately find the problem. I'm fairly confident though that
> this could be reproduced outside Postgres, by replicating the sequence
> of libxml2 calls we make in xpath(). The next step should probably be
> to build a reproducer program and submit it to the libxml authors,
> or maybe run it under a debugging malloc package that could help
> identify where the leak is. Anyone want to do that?

Ugh, I'd love to give that a shot but that is a bit outside my comfort zone.

-- m@

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