Caught exceptions in PL/pgSQL appear to leak memory -- is that
expected? Here's a contrived test case:
CREATE FUNCTION foo(n integer) RETURNS void AS $$
BEGIN FOR i IN 1 .. n LOOP BEGIN RAISE EXCEPTION 'test'; EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN
NULL; END; END LOOP;
END;
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql VOLATILE STRICT;
SELECT foo(200000);
If you watch the backend with top you should see the process size
grow by around 500-600 (512?) bytes per exception caught (you might
need to use more iterations on a fast system to see the effect).
--
Michael Fuhr