Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> The note
>> at line 27ff of xml.c implies that libxml keeps static pointers to
>> allocated things that it thinks will survive indefinitely, so we
>> may have to have these. I'm suspicious whether xmlelement doesn't
>> have a problem if the called expressions error out ...
> Hmm. That could also be fixed if we separated xml_init() and
> xmlInitParser().
Do we know that only xmlInitParser() sets up such static pointers?
If we do, I wonder whether we could call xmlInitParser once in
TopMemoryContext (or before changing the memory function pointers
at all) and then never do xmlCleanupParser?
regards, tom lane