Re: Idle in transaction state.

Peter,

On 9-Sep-06, at 2:14 PM, Peter L. Berghold wrote:

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> Hi folks,
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> I've run into an issue that I'm sure there's a fix for, I just haven't
> quite figured it out on my own.
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> First the overview of the environment:
>     Linux (CentOS release 4.2)
>     Tomcat 5.x application server
>     Struts/Tiles MVC
>     Hibernate 3.1 Object Persistence
>     postgresql-8.2dev-500.jdbc2.jar for JDBC drivers
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> What I'm seeing is the first time my web application is being run
> there
> is a bunch of processes running around that look like:
> "postgres: peter peter_trialdb 127.0.0.1(46222) idle"

I presume you mean "idle in transaction"
>
> in the process table.  What's worse, is if I try to modify my database
> schema while these processes are running (and they seem to stick
> around
> forever) the psql session running the SQL script to do the
> modifications
> hangs on the first statement that modifies or drops an existing table.
>
> I'm not even sure what part of this puzzle is the root cause of the
> problem. JDBC drivers? Hibernate configuration? Elvis?
It's the pooling implementation, it should be setting autocommit to
true when closing the connection, which really means returning the
connection to the pool.
>
> Any insight is welcome and appreciated.
>
Dave
>
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