Re: Handling idle connections

> I am assuming like tell them "check sessions are closed properly" like dat?

Don't open until needed, close when done. Assuming they're actually a problem--for smaller scale environments, it can be perfectly OK to have clients holding connections open for the entire client lifetime.

Set application name on connection, so that *if* there is a problem it's easier to track down.

> On Sep 26, 2023, at 8:55 AM, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> You haven't answered my question. If "query" is truly blank and it is not just a permission problem, then the issue is not that they fail to close connections after use, but rather that they open connections and then never use them.

Which could easily be a matter of some pg library being used. As far as I see, there was also never an answer to whether this is actually a problem and if so, how?

And one more: if there is a problem, why not use pgbouncer?

We've given all the information we can about how to identify such connections. Any further help would depend on more info from Rajesh.