Re: PGSQL 7.4.8 : idle in transaction problem

Tom Lane wrote:

>Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
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>>On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 10:44:35PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
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>>>If it's a matter of whether VACUUM removes rows or not, that's expected:
>>>open-transaction bookkeeping is done across the whole cluster. (This is
>>>not something simple to change, since we may have to consider
>>>transaction IDs in shared catalogs.)
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>>I wonder if this restriction could be lifted if we tracked last-vacuum-
>>Xid per relation?
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>No, that's unrelated. What is of concern is the open-transaction
>horizon.
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From a Slony-I users standpoint - the idle transactions cause
pg_listener bloat, which can impact replication performance on busy sites.

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