Best Regards,
Abbas

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:14 PM, tamanna madaan <
tamanna.mad...@globallogic.com> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I am using postgres-8.4.0 on a cluster setup with slony-2.0.4 being used
> for replication.
> Recently , I saw a "idle in transaction" postgres process as below.
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> postgres 13052 14742 0 May13 ? 00:00:00 postgres: slon abc
> 172.16.1.1(49017) idle in transaction
> I wonder what could have lead to that hung postgres process . I googled
> about it a lot and they say that it could be
> because of abrupt netwotk issue between slony and postgres . But in my case
> slon was connected
> to its local postgres database. So, network wont be an issue in this case .
> What else could be the reason for
> this hung process ? What should I do to come over this kind of issue in
> future. I think this hung process would have
> taken locks on various tables. I wonder if killing the "idle in
> transaction" process would cause the locks on the tables
> to be released or not. Can anyone please  help me on that.
>

Of course it is a slon process if it is not due to a network issue, then
might be any of your scripts, if not you can try by restarting the slon
process on origin.

Abbas.

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> Thanks in Advance .
>
> Tamanna
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