Re: Idle connection timeout

Thom Brown wrote:
> I saw a recent blog entry where someone came up with a solution for expiring
> idle connections (
> http://dividebyzeroexception.blogspot.com/2009/10/implementing-waittimeout-in-postgresql.html)
> and I was surprised there wasn't a config option for this already.  Is this
> something that can be considered for a future release?

Our TODO has:

       Add idle_in_transaction_timeout GUC so locks are not held for
       long periods of time