> 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, and could take a memory snapshot before/after the function completes. Is there a call within Postgres I can make, or should I just rely on OS-level tools for this? -- m@
