Re: Feature thought: idle in transaction timeout

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.

I should have read what you posted more thoroughly. I apologize. A
transaction timeout is surely a bad idea as Tom says below. Heck, not
just from what he says below, but what about the scenario that killing a
transaction could cause a massive rollback and thus increase the initial
problem that I posted about :)

> An *idle* timeout seems less risky, as well as much easier to pick a
> sane value for.

Yeah, it could as high as something like 60 minutes if we really wanted.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>
> regards, tom lane
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