Re: Question about Idle in TX

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 03:57:27PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
- David Kerr <dmk@mr-paradox.net> writes:
- > On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 03:49:57PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
- > - In recent versions of PG, no.  Before about 8.3 it was a Really Bad Idea,
- > - because the open transaction would prevent VACUUM from reclaiming storage.
-
- > We're on 8.3.9, so hopefully it's fairly safe then?
-
- Should be.  You might want to test it just to make sure I'm recalling
- correctly when that got fixed.  Do a BEGIN in one session, then in
- another session insert and delete some rows in a table, then VACUUM
- VERBOSE and see if they get cleaned up.
-
-             regards, tom lane
-

Ah yeah, good idea. I'll give it a shot. thanks!

Dave