I wrote: > You could get rid of the memory growth, at the cost of a lot of > tree-copying, by doing each child plan step in a discardable memory > context. I'm not sure that'd be a win for normal sizes of inheritance > trees though --- you'd need to copy the querytree in and then copy the > resulting plantree out again, for each child. (Hm, but we're doing the > front-end copy already ...) That worked better than I thought it would --- see http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=d1001a78ce612a16ea622b558f5fc2b68c45ab4c I'm not intending to back-patch this, but it ought to apply cleanly to 9.0.x if you want it badly enough to carry a local patch. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance