Re: Old active connections?

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Hans Sebastian <hnsbstn(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Old active connections?
Date: 2018-04-18 02:06:52
Message-ID: 20180418020652.GH18178@paquier.xyz
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On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 05:11:10PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> Long-lived non-idle statements would likely be waiting for a lock to be
> released.

Be very careful with transactions marked as "idle in transaction" for a
long time. Long-running transactions prevent VACUUM to do its work as
the oldest XID in view is not updated, causing performance to go down,
and bloat to go up.
--
Michael

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