Re: Default mode for shutdown

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.

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