Re: Cancelling idle in transaction state

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 15:46 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Simon Riggs wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 15:22 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > > Added to TODO:
> > > >     
> > > >     Allow administrators to cancel multi-statement idle
> > > >     transactions
> > > >     
> > > >         This allows locks to be released, but it is complex to report the
> > > >         cancellation back to the client.
> > > >     
> > > >             * http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-12/msg01340.php 
> > > 
> > > This is part of Hot Standby.
> > > 
> > > The bug is on the TODO list.
> > 
> > Well, if it gets done for 8.4 then we can mark it completed;  it not it
> > will be there for 8.5.  The behavior is useful independent of hot
> > standby.
> 
> At one time there was also a positive discussion on having something
> like:
> 
> idle_in_transaction_timeout

Yep, and already a TODO:
Add idle_in_transaction_timeout GUC so locks are not held forlong periods of time

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