>>> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Also, does the leak still occur if
> you just run the query as-is rather than EXPLAIN ANALYZE it?
The machine became unresponsive similar to the early symptoms of the
apparent memory leak cited in this post:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2008-07/msg00105.php
It was impossible to kill the offending process, since the connections
were unresponsive; we didn't wait for the OOM killer, but rebooted the
machine.
-Kevin