On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:24:47 -0700 Darren Duncan <darren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Unless you have very unique needs, keeping an open connection for > days is just wrong anyway; if its for the sake of some user GUI or > shell, there probably should be safeguards there to encourage users > to not keep long-running transactions or connections. Okay. Thanks for the answers. I implemented an alarm for the timeout, and I close the connection when it is not needed in certain amount of time. However, I have an other question. Calling PQfinish() on an already closed connection makes my program segfault. Is this normal? Thank you, Levente -- Levente Kovacs CTO, CSO http://levente.logonex.eu -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general