"Vadim Mikheev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> However, EvalPlanQual still leaks more memory than suits me --- >> auxiliary memory allocated by the plan nodes is not recovered. > Isn't plan shutdown supposed to free memory? Yeah, but it leaks all over the place; none of the plan node types bother to free their state nodes, for example. There are lots of other cases. You really have to reset the per-query context to get rid of all the cruft allocated during ExecInitNode. > How subselects run queries again and again? They don't end and restart them; they just rescan them. If we had this substitute-a-new-tuple hack integrated into the Param mechanism, then EvalPlanQual could use ExecReScan too, but at the moment no... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])