Hi.
In a more generic way, you need to garantee 2 things:
1) You always release your connections back to the pool.
2) Any connection released must not have a valid transaction with resources allocated.

Its ok to have a connection in the pool with setautocommit(false), that leads to "idle in connection", if the transaction is a new one and no resources or lock have been made at the db.

If you want now what is blocking your vaccum try this:

SELECT pg_class.relname AS table, pg_database.datname AS database, transaction, pid, mode, granted FROM pg_locks, pg_class, pg_database WHERE pg_locks.relation = pg_class.oid AND pg_locks.database = pg_database.oid order by pg_class.relname, pid;

You will see in wich table the vaccum is waiting to acquire the lock and wich process is holding it at the moment.

Best regards.
João Paulo Ribeiro

Sriram Dandapani wrote:

Hi

 

I use JBOSS 4.0.3 to manage my connection pooling. Is there a way to configure / modify code to take care of this

 

Thanks for your input

 

Sriram

 

From: João Paulo Ribeiro [mailto:jp@mobicomp.com]
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 2:15 AM
To: Sriram Dandapani
Cc: pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [JDBC] idle in transaction

 

Hi.

Are you using DODS/Enhydra to manage your database connection pool?
If yes, see my email in the Enhydra mailing list:
http://mail-archive.objectweb.org/dods/2006-05/msg00000.html
http://mail-archive.objectweb.org/dods/2006-06/msg00000.html

The latest DODS dont have this issue anymore. You just use "RollbackOnReset" option.

Bests regards.
João Paulo Ribeiro

Sriram Dandapani wrote:

I use postgres 8.1.2 database and postgres 8.1.404 jdbc driver .

 

I keep seeing “idle in transaction” connections on the postgres box all the time. The application logic closes all connections , so it makes me wonder if the driver is issuing a begin statement after every commit to leave a floating transaction open.

 

This is causing autovacuum to not finish (and hence I have to frequently issue database-wide vacuums to prevent the transaction id wraparound problem)

 

Any help here is appreciated

 

Thanks

 

Sriram




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