On Monday, November 16, 2020, Li Japin <japi...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > <note> > Consider setting this for specific users instead of as a server default. > Client connections managed by connection poolers, or initiated indirectly > like those by a remote postgres_fdw using server, should probably be > excluded from this timeout. > > <note> > > <para> > - This parameter should be set to zero if you use postgres_fdw or > some > - connection-pooling software, because connections might be closed > unexpectedly. > + This parameter should be set to zero if you use some > connection-pooling software, or > + PostgreSQL servers used by postgres_fdw, because connections > might be closed unexpectedly. > </para> > </note> > > Prefer mine, “or pg servers used by postgres_fdw”, doesn’t flow.
> Could you please explain how the idle-in-transaction interfere the > long-running stability? > >From the docs (next section): This allows any locks held by that session to be released and the connection slot to be reused; it also allows tuples visible only to this transaction to be vacuumed. See Section 24.1 <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/routine-vacuuming.html> for more details about this. David J.