Re: Terminating Idle Connections

["Uwe C. Schroeder" <uwe(at)oss4u(dot)com>]

"idle in transaction" usually means the software using the database has a bug.
Technically it means your software issues a "BEGIN" statement, but never a 
rollback or commit. 
PostgreSQL doesn't provide a way to kill processes that are blocked due to 
programming errors, that would kind of defeat the purpose.
Try to find out what exactly causes this. It's definitely a transaction that 
was started but never ended. Maybe turning on SQL statement logging in 
postgresql.conf can help to find the culprit.



On Tuesday 09 May 2006 16:29, Chris Hoover wrote:
> Is there a way inside of Postgresql to automatically terminate idle
> connections?  I would like to terminate any connection to my database that
> has not has any activity for a specified period of time.  I would like to
> be able to do this despite the state of the connection (the majority of my
> truly idle connections show "idle in transaction" in the process table).  I
> would love for the db engine to do this, but if it can't, is there an easy
> way to do this outside the database with some sort of script?
>
> If this is not possible, would there be a possibility of it being added to
> a future version?
>
> thanks,
>
> Chris
>
> RH 4.0 AS
> PostgreSQL 8.1.3



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