Re: Terminate the idle sessions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David G. Johnston
Subject Re: Terminate the idle sessions
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Msg-id CAKFQuwYD4WWy48SR9d5ULYizH0CFur8Zf9DztFzUYb_C1hKXXw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Terminate the idle sessions  (Li Japin <japinli@hotmail.com>)
Responses Re: Terminate the idle sessions  (Li Japin <japinli@hotmail.com>)
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On Monday, November 16, 2020, Li Japin <japinli@hotmail.com> wrote:

<note>
Consider setting this for specific users instead of as a server default.  Client connections managed by connection poolers, or initiated indirectly like those by a remote postgres_fdw using server, should probably be excluded from this timeout.

        <note>
         <para>
-         This parameter should be set to zero if you use postgres_fdw or some
-         connection-pooling software, because connections might be closed unexpectedly.
+         This parameter should be set to zero if you use some connection-pooling software, or
+         PostgreSQL servers used by postgres_fdw, because connections might be closed unexpectedly.
         </para>
        </note>


Prefer mine, “or pg servers used by postgres_fdw”, doesn’t flow.
 
Could you please explain how the idle-in-transaction interfere the long-running stability?

From the docs (next section):

This allows any locks held by that session to be released and the connection slot to be reused; it also allows tuples visible only to this transaction to be vacuumed. See Section 24.1 for more details about this.

David J.

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