> 
> I have had some 'idle in transaction' connections hanging out from time to 
> time that have caused issues on this machine that could explain the above 
> perma-bloat.  That is one thing that could affect the case reported here as 
> well.  The worst thing about those, is you can't even force kill those 
> connections from within postgres (pg_cancel_backend doesn't work on them, and 
> killing them via the OS bounces postgres ...) so you have to hunt down the 
> offending client.
> 

Ooh, I just noticed pg_terminate_backend() ... maybe this will let me kill 
annoying idle in transaction clients.  I guess this arrived in 8.4?  Hopefully 
this won't cause the whole thing to bounce and close all other backends....


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