Idle transactions in PostgreSQL 9.2.4 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Svetlin Manavski
Subject Idle transactions in PostgreSQL 9.2.4
Date
Msg-id CACRNAisBs-jmoBC3wQ_BCGEkcg08zt+ox81DmoBKD5MapGHeNQ@mail.gmail.com
Whole thread Raw
Responses Re: Idle transactions in PostgreSQL 9.2.4  (Victor Yegorov <vyegorov@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general

Hi all,

I have some idle transactions in PostgreSQL 9.2.4 server which never end. My application was working fine on version 9.1 (BSD) but the problem appeared immediately as we ported it to 9.2.4 on Linux. The idle operations would frequently appear as COMMITs but sometimes I observed INSERTS as well.
Please note that each commit below refers to *very light* inserts of single rows which are supposed to last milliseconds. However some of the just never end even if they are not waiting on other operations. See below:

SELECT datname,usename,pid,client_addr,waiting,query_start,query FROM pg_stat_activity;

datname  |  usename  |  pid  | client_addr | waiting |          query_start          |                                    query                                          
----------+-----------+-------+-------------+---------+-------------------------------
 AppQoSDB | appqosusr | 17015 | 127.0.0.1   | f       | 2013-10-15 10:21:38.501435+01 | select AppQoSConfig.get_ip_currentnode()
 AppQoSDB | appqosusr | 17016 | 127.0.0.1   | f       | 2013-10-15 10:21:38.502346+01 | COMMIT
 AppQoSDB | appqosusr | 17017 | 127.0.0.1   | f       | 2013-10-15 10:21:38.584794+01 | select AppQoSConfig.get_ip_currentnode()
 AppQoSDB | appqosusr | 17018 | 127.0.0.1   | f       | 2013-10-15 10:21:38.586073+01 | COMMIT
 AppQoSDB | appqosusr | 17019 | 127.0.0.1   | f       | 2013-10-15 09:20:32.724517+01 | select AppQoSConfig.get_ip_currentnode()
 AppQoSDB | appqosusr | 17021 | 127.0.0.1   | f       | 2013-10-15 10:21:38.622651+01 | select AppQoSConfig.get_ip_currentnode()
 AppQoSDB | appqosusr | 17020 | 127.0.0.1   | f       | 2013-10-15 09:20:32.724433+01 | select AppQoSConfig.get_ip_currentnode()
 AppQoSDB | appqosusr | 17022 | 127.0.0.1   | f       | 2013-10-15 10:21:37.368831+01 | select AppQoSConfig.get_ip_currentnode()
 AppQoSDB | appqosusr | 17024 | 127.0.0.1   | f       | 2013-10-15 09:20:32.828307+01 | COMMIT
 AppQoSDB | appqosusr | 17026 | 127.0.0.1   | f       | 2013-10-15 10:21:38.624378+01 | COMMIT
 AppQoSDB | appqosusr | 17023 | 127.0.0.1   | f       | 2013-10-15 09:20:32.828302+01 | COMMIT
 AppQoSDB | appqosusr | 17025 | 127.0.0.1   | f       | 2013-10-15 10:21:37.369869+01 | COMMIT
 AppQoSDB | appqosusr | 17027 | 127.0.0.1   | f       | 2013-10-15 10:21:38.633244+01 | SELECT datname,usename,pid,client_addr,waiting,query_start,query FROM pg_stat_activity;


This is the current configuration:

             name             |                                              current_setting                                               
------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 version                      | PostgreSQL 9.2.4 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.2-2ubuntu1) 4.7.2, 64-bit
 autovacuum                   | on
 autovacuum_analyze_threshold | 500000
 autovacuum_max_workers       | 1
 autovacuum_naptime           | 1h
 autovacuum_vacuum_threshold  | 500000
 checkpoint_completion_target | 0.7
 checkpoint_segments          | 128
 checkpoint_warning           | 30s
 client_encoding              | UTF8
 effective_cache_size         | 16GB
 lc_collate                   | en_GB.UTF-8
 lc_ctype                     | en_GB.UTF-8
 listen_addresses             | *
 log_destination              | syslog, stderr
 log_min_duration_statement   | 2min
 log_rotation_age             | 10d
 log_rotation_size            | 100MB
 logging_collector            | on
 max_connections              | 200
 max_stack_depth              | 2MB
 server_encoding              | UTF8
 shared_buffers               | 6GB
 synchronous_commit           | off
 TimeZone                     | GB
 wal_buffers                  | 128kB
 work_mem                     | 18MB


Thank you,
Svetlin Manavski

pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: Florian Nigsch
Date:
Subject: Index creation fails with automatic names
Next
From: Christian Affolter
Date:
Subject: Remove or alter the default access privileges of the public schema by the database owner