On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 07:52 +0100, Gábor Farkas wrote: > the remaining 3 were only idle-in-transaction at that point. so if i > would keep checking for idle-in-transaction processes, the list of them > would keep changing. > > are you saying, that a process should NEVER be idle-in-transaction? not > even for a short time? (like some seconds?)
It's OK to be idle-in-transaction, but not OK for that state to last for days. > also, even if it is wrong, can an 'idle-in-transaction' connection that > was opened today block the vacuuming of rows that were deleted yesterday? Yes, if the rows were deleted after the connection started. -- Simon Riggs 2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
