I'm looking at my pg_stat_activity and trying to figure out what is causing some of these processes. I'm using this query:
SELECT pid, wait_event, state_change, backend_start, xact_start, query_start, state_change - query_start, query from pg_stat_activity where datname= 'my_database' and state in ('idle', 'idle in transaction', 'idle in transaction (aborted)', 'disabled');
Including the "state" field should clear things up considerably.
The transactions are idle, they are filtered in the WHERE statement.
You assume that, in this case seemingly correctly, but a failure to include and talk about the specific state that shows up suggests a failure to understand that the three states that have the word idle in them are different and should be reasoned about differently.
