"Matt Magoffin" <postgresql.org@xxxxxxx> 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