Re: memory leak in xml2 contrib module

Dne 14.12.2010 21:50, Robert Haas napsal(a):
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 7:54 AM,  <tv@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.

Yes, AFAIK there's a relevant discussion in the pgsql-hackers list.

regards
Tomas