While chasing down Valgrind leakage reports, I was disturbed to realize that some of them arise from a case where the executor scribbles on the plan tree it's given, which it is absolutely not supposed to do:
/* * Initialize result tuple slot and assign its rowtype using the first * RETURNING list. We assume the rest will look the same. */ mtstate->ps.plan->targetlist = (List *) linitial(returningLists); A bit of git archaeology fingers Andres' commit 4717fdb14, which we can't easily revert since he later got rid of ExecAssignResultType altogether. But I think we need to do something about it --- it's purest luck that this doesn't cause serious problems in some cases. regards, tom lane