Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Added to TODO: > * Add idle_timeout GUC so locks are not held for log periods of time
BTW, before I forget it: there's a non-obvious consideration here, which is not breaking the query protocol. I suspect that we cannot send an unsolicited ERROR message without getting out-of-sync with the client, which will likely take the error as the response to its next command and thenceforth be very confused. What we'll probably have to do to make this work is abort the transaction upon timeout (so that VACUUM et al can get on with things) but not report the error to the client until its next command. And if said next command happens to be ROLLBACK then there's nothing to complain of at all. Doable, probably, but seems a bit messy. regards, tom lane PS: the only case where we currently send an unsolicited ERROR is during SIGTERM or SIGQUIT shutdown; where it doesn't matter if we're out of sync because we're killing the session anyway. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend