Re: pgpool ABORT + no transaction warning

The problem is not reproduced here. Do you have any idea how to
reproduce it?
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan

> On Apr 1, 2006, at 8:01 AM, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>
> >> A while back, I posted about seeing a number of warnings from pgpool:
> >>
> >> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2005-03/msg00305.php
> >>
> >> A typical pair of statements in my postgres logs looks like this:
> >>
> >> WARNING: there is no transaction in progress
> >> STATEMENT: ABORT
> >>
> >> Tatsuo Ishii declared that these were harmless, and I took (and still
> >> take) his word for it.
> >>
> >> At some point in the past with my old configuration (postgres 8.1.3 /
> >> pgpool 2.5.1) I did something that prevented the warnings from
> >> showing up. On a system running postgres 8.1.3, I recently upgraded
> >> pgpool from 2.5.1 to 3.0.1. When I upgraded pgpool, I began seeing
> >> the warnings again after a long window of not having seen them. My
> >> configuration files for pgpool and postgres didn't change during the
> >> upgrade, so I'm wondering what I might've been doing to avoid
> >> polluting my logs with them previously and why they are showing up
> >> again.
> >
> > Could you tell me how to reproduce the problem?
>
> Here's what happened: I performed an on-line backup and recovery to
> move postgres from one server to another. On the new server, I
> installed pgpool 3.0.1 and copied over my old configuration files.
>
> I have two instances of pgpool running on the server and am only
> using pgpool for connection pooling, not load balancing or
> replication. The only three settings that are different between the
> two configurations are port, logdir, and num_init_children.
>
> Below is one pgpool.conf (with a few paths changed back to the
> defaults just for obfuscation), which doesn't include
> child_max_connections, insert_lock, or ignore_leading_white_space
> because I just used my 2.5.1 configuration file. I assume it would
> just use defaults for these values if they weren't specified in the
> file?
>
> listen_addresses = '*'
> port = 9999
> socket_dir = '/tmp'
> backend_host_name = ''
> backend_port = 5432
> backend_socket_dir = '/tmp'
> secondary_backend_host_name = ''
> secondary_backend_port = 0
> num_init_children = 64
> max_pool = 4
> child_life_time = 300
> connection_life_time = 10
> logdir = '/tmp/pgpool1'
> replication_mode = false
> replication_strict = true
> replication_timeout = 5000
> load_balance_mode = false
> weight_master = 0.5
> weight_secondary = 0.5
> replication_stop_on_mismatch = false
> reset_query_list = 'ABORT; RESET ALL; SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION DEFAULT'
> print_timestamp = true
> master_slave_mode = false
> connection_cache = true
> health_check_timeout = 20
> health_check_period = 0
> health_check_user = 'nobody'
>
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