Re: Default mode for shutdown

From: Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Default mode for shutdown
Date: 2010-12-15 16:47:00
Message-ID: CD9A03F0-7075-4198-A8CD-B998BD93FD43@nasby.net
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On Dec 15, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mié dic 15 12:03:06 -0300 2010:
>
>> Certainly, if you have an environment where people are mostly logging
>> into the database directly (not through a connection pooler) and they
>> do a few important queries and then disconnect, smart is a better
>> default. But if you have an environment where (for whatever reason)
>> long-lasting connections are common, smart is worse than useless.
>
> It occurs to me that we may need a new mode, which disconnects sessions
> that are not in a transaction (or as soon as they are) but leaves
> in-progress transactions alone; this could be the new default. Of
> course, this is much more difficult to implement than the current modes.

+1; that would certainly be useful for us.
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Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect jim(at)nasby(dot)net
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