Re: index file bloating still in 7.4 ?

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:42:52PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

> hold of these dead rows instead of recycling them. I suspect you have
> a client process somewhere that is holding an open transaction for a
> long time ... probably not doing anything, just sitting there with an
> unclosed BEGIN ...

Which could be because you're doing something nasty with one of the
"autocommit=off" clients. Most of the client libraries implement
this by doing "commit;begin;" at every commit. This means you have
way more idle in transaction connections than you think. Look in
pg_stat_activity, assuming you've turned on query echoing.

A

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