Re: row-attribute in EXPLAIN-output doesn't match count(*)

On Thursday 14 April 2005 21:08, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:04:47PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > It is a Postgres limitation as well.  We _could_ make the server "really
> > start the transaction" at the point the first query is issued instead of
> > when the BEGIN is issued.  In fact this problem would go away if we did
> > that.
>
> Yeah; I seem to remember Tom Lane suggesting such an approach at one
> point.  I had the vague idea it might happen in 8.0, but for some
> reason I think it didn't.  (Anyway, that's probably off topic for
> this list.)

I don't see this behaviour under 8.0.0, and it's presumably fixed:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jdbc/2004-06/msg00018.php

Is it safe to issue a "kill -2 <pid-of-idle-process>", will the
connection-pool reconnect?

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