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

On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 2:46 PM 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
Yeah, the fact all of those are for "apiuser" suggests to me that user has
their own setting for this which takes precedence over the server default.

The output of \drds would be more informative than just looking at some
unknown session's value.

David J.