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. > > 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. > > Thanks in Advance . > > Tamanna > > > > > >