On 06/26/2014 06:45 AM, Fujii Masao wrote:
>> The point of this feature, AFAICS, is to detect clients that are failing
>> > to issue another query or close their transaction as a result of bad
>> > client logic. It's not to protect against network glitches.
>
> If so, the document should explain that cleanly. Otherwise users may
> misunderstand this parameter and try to use it to protect even long transaction
> generated by network glitches or client freeze.
What does pg_stat_activity say for those cases? If it's able to say
"idle in transaction", then this patch covers it. If it isn't, then
that seems like a different patch.
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Vik
