On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 12:02:22PM -0500, Jim Seymour wrote: [...]
> Which is all well-and-good (tho, my ignorance readily conceded, four > minutes seems a mite... long), *except*: If I shut-down the > WebObjects application which, again, never accesses the db in > question, much-less any of its tables, this "time-out" doesn't seem > to apply. (I tried it.) Ok, so the WebObjects app keeps an idle open transaction? (i.e. it issues a BEGIN as soon as the previous transaction is finished.) I'm not sure I read the code correctly -- ISTM it would only matter when you try to vacuum a shared table, which this is not ... -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>) "El hombre nunca sabe de lo que es capaz hasta que lo intenta" (C. Dickens) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match