Re: database bloat,non removovable rows, slow query etc... [RESOLVED]

Matteo,

On 2-Sep-06, at 4:37 AM, Matteo Sgalaberni wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 01:35:20PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Matteo Sgalaberni <sgala@sgala.com> writes:
>>> Ok. I stopped all clients. No connections to this database.
>>
>> When you say "this database", do you mean the whole postmaster
>> cluster,
>> or just the one database?  Open transactions in other databases of
>> the
>> same cluster can be a problem.
>>
> AGH!!!! AGHR!!!
>
> A my collegue JDBC application that stay in "idle intransaction"
> 24h/24h
> (but in another database, non in the bloated-reported db...)!
>
> I killed it now(jdbc app).
this behaviour has been fixed in later versions of the jdbc driver
>
> vacuumed full and PG have cleaned all!! So if I have a idle
> transaction in
> one database of the cluster it "lock" vacuums of all databases of
> the cluster.
>
> Good to know this...but why this behaviour? it'is lovely...:)
>
> Tom , can you explain why?...
>
> Thanks a lot!!
>
> Matteo
>
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