Re: Feature freeze date for 8.1

Neil Conway wrote:
> The specific scenario this feature is intended to resolve is
> idle-in-transaction backends holding on to resources while the
> network connection times out;

I was under the impression that the specific scenario is 
busy-in-transaction backends continuing to produce and send data while 
the client has disappeared.  Why does the backend ignore network errors 
and keep sending data?

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/