On fre, 2012-04-27 at 22:30 +0200, Andres Freund wrote: > In the few cases where I investigated it TMs don't use transactions > themselves (which I think is correct, they don't need them), so > terminating any idle session - which the TM would appear as, as its > not using txns - would leave prepared transactions in a limbo state > till the database is up again, instead of waiting till all prepared > transactions are either aborted or committed. It may also choose to > coordinate to abort all transactions, but all that is hard if the > database shuts you out.
This would lead to another shutdown mode, one that terminates idle sessions unless they have prepared transactions. That could be useful. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
