Re: Idle connection timeout - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Idle connection timeout
Date
Msg-id 20091009233413.GH5303@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Idle connection timeout  (Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Idle connection timeout
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Thom Brown escribió:
> 2009/10/9 Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
> 
> > Thom Brown wrote:
> > > I saw a recent blog entry where someone came up with a solution
> > > for expiring idle connections (
> > >
> > http://dividebyzeroexception.blogspot.com/2009/10/implementing-waittimeout-in-postgresql.html
> > )
> > > and I was surprised there wasn't a config option for this already.
> > > Is this something that can be considered for a future release?
> >
> > Our TODO has:
> >
> >        Add idle_in_transaction_timeout GUC so locks are not held for
> >        long periods of time
>
> Awesome!  Thanks for the info Bruce.

This is quite a different thing though.  You were talking about idle
connections; the TODO item is about idle-in-transaction connections.
(Also, keep in mind that something being in the TODO list does not mean
anyone is planning to work on it.)

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