Re: index file bloating still in 7.4 ?

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

Or is enough do a ps -eafwww | grep post
to see the state of the connections

Regards
Gaetano Mendola