On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 7:54 AM,  <t...@fuzzy.cz> wrote:
> one of my colleagues found ugly memory leak in the xml2 contrib module.
> Try this:
>
> select xpath_number('<data>' || generate_series || '</data>','/data') from
> generate_series(1,500000);
>
> This will allocate arbitrary amount of memory, and it won't release it
> until the backend exits (user disconnects). We've found this in 8.4 and
> I've verified it's still present in 9.0.1.
>
> I know the xml2 module is deprecated and most of the functions was moved
> into core (and behave correctly) but xslt_process function was not and
> that's why xml2 module is used.
>
> Pavel Stehule already prepared a fix (see the attachment).

I don't see a response to this email, but it looks like Tom did apply a fix.

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