Re: Default mode for shutdown

Jim Nasby <jim@nasby.net>

From: Jim Nasby <jim@nasby.net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-12-15T16:47:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Dec 15, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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.

+1; that would certainly be useful for us.
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