Re: Shared buffers, db transactions commited, and write IO on Solaris

Erik,

> Well, our application code itself doesn't retry queries if the db is
> taking a long time to respond. However, we do have a number of our
> servers making db connections via pgpool so you may be on to
> something here. While I will be taking these questions to the pgpool
> lists, I'll posit them here as well: If a pgpool child process
> reaches it's connection lifetime while waiting on a query to
> complete, does pgpool retry the query with another child? If a
> connection thus dies, does the transaction complete normally on the
> server? If the answers to these questions are both yes, this could
> definitely be what was happening.

It's been a while since I used pgpool with load balancing turned on, so you
should probably try the pgpool lists. What version?

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco