Re: Cancelling idle in transaction state

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-01-21T20:46:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Simon Riggs wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 15:22 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Added to TODO:
> > 	
> > 	Allow administrators to cancel multi-statement idle
> > 	transactions
> > 	
> > 	    This allows locks to be released, but it is complex to report the
> > 	    cancellation back to the client.
> > 	
> > 	        * http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-12/msg01340.php 
> 
> This is part of Hot Standby.
> 
> The bug is on the TODO list.

Well, if it gets done for 8.4 then we can mark it completed;  it not it
will be there for 8.5.  The behavior is useful independent of hot
standby.

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