Assuming you are on a linux box (Not sure if it's stated in your mail, sorry if I missed that) you could set /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time to a lower value. That should do the trick. Hope this helps Greetings Dario On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 16:48 +0200, KÖPFERL Robert wrote: > > > > |-----Original Message----- > |From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > |Sent: Mittwoch, 03. August 2005 16:38 > |To: KÖPFERL Robert > |Cc: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > |Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Blocking connection and timeout problem > | > | > |=?iso-8859-1?Q?K=D6PFERL_Robert?= <robert.koepferl@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > |> Why is that? Why isn't client A's transaction detected as dead ? > | > |It will be eventually, when the TCP connection times out. The standard > |timeout is generally an hour or two :-( > > Seems not like so. I waited for two hours and it still existed. > > But non-the-less. Can this timeout be configured to be less? > > | > | regards, tom lane > | > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend >