Re: Idle processes won't die

Dear James,

We have been using mod_perl with PostgreSQL in web environment
without any problems. I hope you are already using Apache::DBI for
connection pooling.

Regds
Mallah

James Taylor wrote:

> Hi everyone, using mod_perl with Postgres, postgres is on the same
> server as the webserver.  Perl is opening connections, and then
> closing them at the end of every script, however Pg
> is refusing to close the connection, and I have tons and tons of Idle
> processes sitting around, which causes the web site to crash because
> the maximum number of pgsql processes gets reached after the site is
> accessed 32 times.  From everything I know about Perl, even if I
> didn't implicitly close the database handles, the perl garbage handler
> would close them for me.  Is there some sort of configuration for
> postgres to disallow all these idle processes from sticking around, so
> they maybe... close themselves after 5 seconds or something similar?
>
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