Re: Default mode for shutdown

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 16:11, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> 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.

Now that, however, would actually be a useful behavior... Where's your patch? ;)

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