Disconnect sessions and session timeouts

Started by Len Walterover 20 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1Len Walter
len.walter@gmail.com

Hi,

I'm looking to solve a problem where a client application is leaving
idle sessions open, eventually filling up the maximum connections and
stopping anyone from connecting.

It seems like there's no way to disconnect sessions after a given idle
timeout. There is a statement timeout, but that won't terminate the
session.

Is there any way to disconnect a given session? In oracle you'd do
something like "alter system kill session 'sid,serial#'". I've tried
parsing the output of ps -efa to find out which postgres processes
below to clients that should be disconnected, then sending them TERM
or QUIT signals, but TERM has no effect and QUIT puts the whole
database into recovery mode.

Thanks in advance,
Len

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Len Walter len.walter@gmail.com http://crookedtimbre.net

#2Ian Harding
harding.ian@gmail.com
In reply to: Len Walter (#1)
Re: Disconnect sessions and session timeouts

Can the client application be modified? It seems like it might need to be,
since if it is expecting its connection to be open whenever it's running,
the server killing the connection might lead it to crash.

- Ian

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On 8/1/05, Len Walter <len.walter@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'm looking to solve a problem where a client application is leaving
idle sessions open, eventually filling up the maximum connections and
stopping anyone from connecting.

It seems like there's no way to disconnect sessions after a given idle
timeout. There is a statement timeout, but that won't terminate the
session.

Is there any way to disconnect a given session? In oracle you'd do
something like "alter system kill session 'sid,serial#'". I've tried
parsing the output of ps -efa to find out which postgres processes
below to clients that should be disconnected, then sending them TERM
or QUIT signals, but TERM has no effect and QUIT puts the whole
database into recovery mode.

Thanks in advance,
Len

--
Len Walter len.walter@gmail.com http://crookedtimbre.net

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