From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Russell Smith <mr-russ(at)pws(dot)com(dot)au>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Feature thought: idle in transaction timeout |
Date: | 2007-04-03 01:59:29 |
Message-ID: | 4611B501.2070506@commandprompt.com |
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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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