Re: [GENERAL] idle in transaction, why - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Rob Sargent
Subject Re: [GENERAL] idle in transaction, why
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Msg-id 633EBCD3-839C-4A8C-A7DA-46D662D2C552@gmail.com
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] idle in transaction, why  (Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@gmx.net>)
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> On Nov 7, 2017, at 12:16 AM, Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Rob Sargent schrieb am 06.11.2017 um 23:09:
>> Gosh I wish I could learn to proof-read my posts.
>> My support crew graciously set
>>
>> idle_transaction_timeout = 1
>>
>> Now to ponder if I need zero or some large number.
>
> The unit of that setting is milliseconds (if no unit is specified).
> zero disables that feature.
>
> One millisecond seems like an awfully short period to allow a transaction to be idle.
>
> I would figure values in "minutes" to be more realistic depending on the workload and characteristics of the
application. 
>
> A transaction that has several seconds of "think time" between individual statements doesn't seem that unrealistic.
>
>
> Thomas
>
I see I didn’t clarify that the timeout was set in the pgbouncer configuration. (I had shown upstream that it was NOT
setfor the  postgres server.) In pgbouncer, the unit is seconds. 

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