On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 05:53:02AM -0700, Jeff Lanzarotta wrote: > Hello, > > I am writing an application that reads information from my PostgreSQL > database. If I cause the program to crash and the program ends without > gracefully disconnecting from the database, there is an open connection > still left in the database. > > How does the PostgreSQL server handle clients that disconnect > ungracefully? Will the server automatically clean up this connection > that really is not there? Yes, but it will log a notice about it in the server log. //Magnus