Re: idle_in_transaction_timeout

On 06/24/2014 10:17 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> On 06/23/2014 03:52 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
>>> True.  Which makes me wonder whether we shouldn't default this to
>>> something non-zero -- even if it is 5 or 10 days.
> 
>> I'd go for even shorter: 48 hours.  I'd suggest 24 hours, but that would
>> trip up some users who just need really long pg_dumps.
> 
> FWIW, I do not think we should have a nonzero default for this.
> We could not safely set it to any value that would be small enough
> to be really useful in the field.

48 hours would actually be a useful value; I've dealt multiple times
with newbie users who had a transaction which had been open for a week.

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