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From tamanna madaan
Subject idle in transaction process
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Hi All
 
I am using postgres-8.4.0 on a cluster setup with slony-2.0.4 being used for replication.
Recently , I saw a "idle in transaction" postgres process as below.
 
postgres 13052 14742 0 May13 ? 00:00:00 postgres: slon abc 172.16.1.1(49017) idle in transaction
I wonder what could have lead to that hung postgres process . I googled about it a lot and they say that it could be 
because of abrupt netwotk issue between slony and postgres . But in my case slon was connected
to its local postgres database. So, network wont be an issue in this case . What else could be the reason for
this hung process ? What should I do to come over this kind of issue in future. I think this hung process would have
taken locks on various tables. I wonder if killing the "idle in transaction" process would cause the locks on the tables
to be released or not. Can anyone please  help me on that.
 
Thanks in Advance .
 
Tamanna
 
 


 

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