Re: Out of memory on SELECT (from sort?) in 8.3

"Matt Magoffin" <postgresql.org@msqr.us> writes:
>> Is this particular query using xml features, and if so which?  Actually,
>> could you just show us the whole query and the schemas of the tables
>> it's using?

> No, other than returning a column of type xml.

Huh, I was overthinking the problem.  xml_out has a memory leak :-(

More than one in fact: a large leak (equal to size of output) in
the executor context (hence query lifespan) and a small one in
LibxmlContext (hence transaction lifespan).

Try the patch here:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2008-09/msg00159.php

(In the long run it might be better if we didn't run datatype output
functions in a query-lifespan context ...)

            regards, tom lane