IMHO the client application is already confused and it's in Prod.
Shouldn't he perhaps terminate/abort the IDLE connections in Prod and
work on correcting the problem so it doesn't occur in Dev/Test??
On 11/24/09, Matthew Wakeling <matthew(at)flymine(dot)org> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Lorenzo Allegrucci wrote:
>> Anyway, how can I get rid those "idle in transaction" processes?
>> Can I just kill -15 them or is there a less drastic way to do it?
>
> Are you crazy? Sure, if you want to destroy all of the changes made to the
> database in that transaction and thoroughly confuse the client
> application, you can send a TERM signal to a backend, but the consequences
> to your data are on your own head.
>
> Fix the application, don't tell Postgres to stop being a decent database.
>
> Matthew
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