Re: Feature thought: idle in transaction timeout

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I ran into an interesting problem with a customer today. They are 
> running Jabber XCP (not the one we use). Unfortunately, the product 
> has a bug that causes it to leave connections persistent in a 
> transaction state. This is what it does:
>
> BEGIN; SELECT 1;
>
> Basically it is verifying that the connection is live. However, it 
> never calls commit. So what happens? We can't vacuum ;).
>
> Anyway, my thought is, we know when a transaction is idle, why not 
> have an idle timeout where we will explicitly close the connection or 
> rollback or something? User configurable of course.
I agree with this, it reduces the long running transaction problem a 
little where the user forgot to commit/rollback their session.  I may be 
worth having a transaction_timeout as well, and setting it to link a few 
hours by default.  That way you can't have really long running 
transactions unless you specifically set that.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
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