Re: Review: Hot standby

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Guillaume Smet <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Review: Hot standby
Date: 2008-11-28 18:34:52
Message-ID: 493039CC.7090507@dunslane.net
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Guillaume Smet wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
>> Hm. People have complained of that fact from time to time in normal
>> usage as well. Should we simply change SIGINT handling to allow it to
>> cancel an idle transaction?
>>
>
> If this means that we would be able to able to easily rollback the
> current transaction of a backend stuck in "idle in transaction"
> status, a big +1.
>
>

Yes, I have had clients caught by this regularly (last time less than a
week ago), it would be a significant enhancement.

cheers

andrew

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