Re: Finding if old transactions are running...

From: jtv(at)xs4all(dot)nl
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: jtv(at)xs4all(dot)nl, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, "Christopher Browne" <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Finding if old transactions are running...
Date: 2005-02-25 07:24:04
Message-ID: 18646.202.47.227.16.1109316244.squirrel@202.47.227.16
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> jtv(at)xs4all(dot)nl writes:

> pg_locks certainly seems like a better solution. Perhaps it didn't
> exist when you went with pg_stat_activity? Can't recall offhand.

Neither do I... But I do need something that will work with at least any
recent backend version--say, 7.2 or since. The more the better, really.
Any idea how old pg_locks is?

> Note that you still want to look for your old backend's PID; it seems
> impractically expensive to keep track of the current transaction's XID.
> (At a minimum that would cost another query per xact...)

Yes, I see now--I thought I had the transaction ID handy already anyway,
but I didn't. Thanks.

Jeroen

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