intermediateProduction Engineering
What does "idle in transaction" mean, and why is it dangerous?
A transaction that's open but not actively running a query (e.g. waiting on external I/O) — it still holds locks and an MVCC snapshot the whole time, silently degrading concurrency for other transactions.
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