Re: Idle In Transaction Session Timeout, revived

From: David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, Vik Fearing <vik(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Idle In Transaction Session Timeout, revived
Date: 2016-02-03 22:05:44
Message-ID: 56B279B8.3010601@pgmasters.net
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On 2/3/16 4:25 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com> wrote:
>>> Wouldn't it be more sensible to just roll the transaction back and not
>>> disconnect?
>
> I'm not sure how messy this would be in practice. But if we think that
> killing the whole session is not desirable but something we're doing for
> expediency, then it would be worth looking into that approach.

I think killing the session is a perfectly sensible thing to do in this
case. Everything meaningful that was done in the session will be rolled
back - no need to waste resources keeping the connection open.

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-David
david(at)pgmasters(dot)net

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