Re: idle_in_transaction_timeout

On 06/18/2014 12:32 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>>  There are plenty of badly-written applications which "auto-begin", that
>> is, they issue a "BEGIN;" immediately after every "COMMIT;" whether or
>> not there's any additional work to do.  This is a major source of IIT
>> and the timeout should not ignore it.
> 
> Nonsense.  We explicitly don't do anything useful until the first actual
> command arrives, precisely to avoid that problem.

Oh, we don't allocate a snapshot?  If not, then no objection here.

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