Re: transaction timeout

TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster



Dr NoName wrote:

>>The common view on this kind of thing is that if
>>your client is broken,
>>you need to fix it.
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>The problem is, we can't fix the users, nor can we fix
>other software that our client has to interact with.
>There will always be occasional situations when a
>client gets stuck.
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>>That said, I have seen some folks post about writing
>>a perl or shell
>>script that runs every x minutes looking for
>>connections that have been
>>idle for > a certain amount of time and kill the
>>backend associated with
>>it (sigterm, not -9...)
>>
>>
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>what are the implications of killing a postmaster
>process?
>
>thanks,
>
>Eugene
>
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