Re: Autovacuum and idle_session_timeout

On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 at 17:18, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been reading the autovacuum code (the launcher and the worker) on the
> 14 branch. As previously, I've seen some configuration at the beginning,
> especially for statement_timeout, lock_timeout and
> idle_in_transaction_session_timeout, and I was surprised to discover there
> was no configuration for idle_session_timeout. I'm not sure the code should
> set it to 0 as well (otherwise I'd have written a patch), but, if there was
> a decision made to ignore its value, I'd be interested to know the reason.
> I could guess for the autovacuum worker (it seems to work in a transaction,
> so it's already handled by the idle_in_transaction_timeout), but I have no
> idea for the autovacuum launcher.
>
> If it was just missed, I could write a patch this week to fix this.
>

Oh, it was just missed. I didn't note set autovacuum code set those settings,
I think we should also set idle_session_timeout to 0.

Should we also change this for pg_dump and pg_backup_archiver?