xact_start time set to very old value

From: Virendra Kumar <viru_7683(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: xact_start time set to very old value
Date: 2020-08-10 06:05:12
Message-ID: 1930665427.2385958.1597039512032@mail.yahoo.com
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Hi Team,
We have observed that xact_start time is null for some period and suddenly it populates to very old value. We have a query which runs every minute to report any transactions running for long time. That query reports nothing continuously for a minute before and suddenly it reports one transaction which is running for more than one day. Is there something wrong here in populating xact_start time in pg_stat_activity? Shall we go with any other approach to detect long running transaction in database? Can someone guide on this?

I went through a thread - https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20140424101827.2714.39486%40wrigleys.postgresql.org but not sure where it concluded.
Appreciate your response.
We are using AWS RDS 11.4.
Regards,-Virendra

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