Re: killing idle postgres instances

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 08:56:15PM -0200, Marcus Andree S. Magalhaes wrote:
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> Thanks, Tom,
>
> but the connections are closed by a finally clause.

If you have idle connections, then necissarily, that's not happening.

> And, besides, when the vm exits, all tcp/ip connections should be closed...

I've definitely seen cases where this is not the case; they're
closed, but not properly. Eventually PostgreSQL will notice that the
client is gone and shut the connection down, but that will take some
time (like 2 hours).

A

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