diff --git a/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c b/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c
index 7d0e00effe18c9969b4c4f34b9fd228a5d34b773..eaee0f79722a0c8a8073f6dfd03efad18ab79f6f 100644
--- a/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c
+++ b/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
  *	  ENHANCEMENTS, OR MODIFICATIONS.
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c,v 1.78 2005/06/22 16:45:51 tgl Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c,v 1.79 2005/07/03 21:56:16 tgl Exp $
  *
  **********************************************************************/
 
@@ -1327,14 +1327,16 @@ plperl_hash_from_tuple(HeapTuple tuple, TupleDesc tupdesc)
 		getTypeOutputInfo(tupdesc->attrs[i]->atttypid,
 						  &typoutput, &typisvarlena);
 
-		outputstr = DatumGetCString(OidFunctionCall1(typoutput,
-													 attr));
+		outputstr = DatumGetCString(OidFunctionCall1(typoutput, attr));
 
 		sv = newSVpv(outputstr, 0);
 #if PERL_BCDVERSION >= 0x5006000L
-		if (GetDatabaseEncoding() == PG_UTF8) SvUTF8_on(sv);
+		if (GetDatabaseEncoding() == PG_UTF8)
+			SvUTF8_on(sv);
 #endif
 		hv_store(hv, attname, namelen, sv, 0);
+
+		pfree(outputstr);
 	}
 
 	return newRV_noinc((SV *) hv);