Yeah, I can reproduce this pretty easily. It seems like a memory leak in ExecMakeTableFunctionResult. a9c35cf85ca reworked FunctionCallInfo to be variable-length, but it gets allocated in ExecutorState context directly and so until the end of the query.
I find the leak was introduced much earlier than that, in:
commit 763f2edd92095b1ca2f4476da073a28505c13820 Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Date: Thu Nov 15 14:26:14 2018 -0800
Rejigger materializing and fetching a HeapTuple from a slot.
I have no idea if this info is useful to informing the best solution, though.
You patch applied to REL_12_STABLE does fix it for me.
The attached trivial patch fixes that by adding a pfree() at the end of the function. I wonder if we have the same issue elsewhere ...
Is there an easy way to assess if the "make check" regression tests are taking more memory than they used to?
