Re: BUG #10123: Weird entries in pg_stat_activity - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #10123: Weird entries in pg_stat_activity
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Msg-id 15615.1398364718@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to BUG #10123: Weird entries in pg_stat_activity  (maxim.boguk@gmail.com)
Responses Re: BUG #10123: Weird entries in pg_stat_activity  (Maxim Boguk <maxim.boguk@gmail.com>)
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maxim.boguk@gmail.com writes:
> During debug of the weird nagios database alerts about long transactions I
> found that sometime pg_stat_activity contains very weird entries with
> xact_start NOT NULL and state='idle'...
> ...
> What's more: i tested that problem on another databases - and found they
> have same effect (so it doesn't look like a problem local to that single
> exact database).

So can you provide a self-contained test case for this?  I tried to
reproduce it here without much success, and I don't see a code path
other than PREPARE TRANSACTION that could lead to this.

            regards, tom lane

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