Re: Feature thought: idle in transaction timeout

fixed.

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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Added to TODO:
> >
> > * Add idle_timeout GUC so locks are not held for log periods of time
> >
>
> That should actually be transaction_idle_timeout. It is o.k. for us to
> be IDLE... it is not o.k. for us to be IDLE in Transaction
>
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>
>
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> >>> Russell Smith wrote:
> >>>> I agree with this, it reduces the long running transaction problem a
> >>>> little where the user forgot to commit/rollback their session. I may be
> >>>> worth having a transaction_timeout as well, and setting it to link a few
> >>>> hours by default. That way you can't have really long running
> >>>> transactions unless you specifically set that.
> >>> We would certainly need to be able to disable on the fly too just with
> >>> SET as well.
> >> AFAICS, a *transaction* timeout per se has no use whatever except as a
> >> foot-gun. How will you feel when you start a 12-hour restore, go home
> >> for the evening, and come back in the morning to find it aborted because
> >> you forgot to disable your 4-hour timeout?
> >>
> >> Furthermore, if you have to set transaction_timeout to multiple hours
> >> in the (vain) hope of not killing something important, what use is it
> >> really? If you want to keep VACUUM able to work in a busy database,
> >> you need it to be a lot less than that.
> >>
> >> An *idle* timeout seems less risky, as well as much easier to pick a
> >> sane value for.
> >>
> >> regards, tom lane
> >>
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