Re: postgresql idle - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: postgresql idle
Date
Msg-id 20040429204052.GG2058@phlogiston.dyndns.org
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In response to Re: postgresql idle  (Andrew Rawnsley <ronz@ravensfield.com>)
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 03:57:59PM -0400, Andrew Rawnsley wrote:
>
>  I find that some clients (DBVisualizer for one) do exactly that -
> execute the COMMIT;BEGIN sequence, and leaves idle
> transactions on a consistent basis.

Almost all the things I've see that set the autocommit behaviour will
also do this.  I suspect it's a pretty common approach.  It has
burned us at work several times, and I knew in advance it was a
problem.  I can't imagine what it's like for people who aren't aware
of it.

A

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