Re: BUG #18075: configuration variable idle_session_timeout not working as expected

Hi David,
PostgreSQL does create and maintain connections on request because it is “expensive” to create new connections. Wouldn’t possible in your case to control the idle connections from the apps requesting connections? Things like reducing app thread pool? PostgreSQL ignore (rightfully) some of the configs even if it is set.

Regards,
Emile

> On 29 Aug 2023, at 23:46, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> "David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Tuesday, August 29, 2023, PG Bug reporting form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org>
>> wrote:
>>> I have set the idle_session_timeout variable as 60000 making it 60 seconds
>>> As we can see, it shows that the time is way more than 1 minute now it is
>>> 28 minutes and they are still idle and still open in postgres and not
>>> disconnected as expected.
>
>> Not sure how you got 28 minutes from 45748…which is large enough that it is
>> probable those sessions started before you changed the timeout and so are
>> not affected by it.
>
> I believe idle_session_timeout is consulted when the session goes
> idle, and we either set a timeout interrupt or not. The prevailing
> value might change after that, but it won't affect existing sessions
> until they next go idle. I do not regard that as a bug.
>
> Also, the OP didn't say *how* he set idle_session_timeout. That
> pg_settings extract only proves that 60000 is the prevailing value in
> the session where that was done. It's possible that the value was
> only set locally, or in some other way that didn't affect those other
> sessions at all.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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