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To many idle supabase_admin connections are visible in the selfhost supabase

Open RishabhPachori opened this issue 9 months ago • 0 comments

Bug report

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Describe the bug

Connection are not released when connections are closed.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior, please provide code snippets or a repository:

Use this guide to setup supabase in my local system https://supabase.com/docs/guides/self-hosting/docker When supabase is up open the supabase dashboard url go to the database roles section Where you can see approx 50+ connections of supabase_admin role

Expected behavior

There should be active connections are visible not the idle ones. Supabase connection should get released when connection is closed.

Screenshots

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Run this command in the sql editor

select * from pg_stat_activity where usename = 'supabase-admin';

Result:

usename application_name
supabase_admin TimescaleDB Background Worker Launcher
supabase_admin pg_cron scheduler
supabase_admin
supabase_admin pg_net 0.14.0
supabase_storage_admin
supabase_admin supabase_mt_realtime
supabase_admin
authenticator PostgREST 12.2.0
supabase_admin supabase_mt_realtime
supabase_admin supabase_mt_realtime
supabase_admin supabase_mt_realtime
supabase_admin supabase_mt_realtime
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin cluster_node_supavisor@73342e01069e
supabase_admin cluster_node_supavisor@73342e01069e
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin supavisor_meta
supabase_admin
supabase_admin
supabase_admin
supabase_admin
supabase_admin
supabase_admin
supabase_admin
supabase_admin
supabase_admin
supabase_admin
supabase_admin
supabase_admin
supabase_admin
supabase_admin
supabase_auth_admin
supabase_auth_admin

After that I have added DB_POOL_SIZE: 5 & POOLER_DEFAULT_POOL_SIZE: 20 in the supavisor image config in docker-compose.yml file. Now connections drops to 36. Is it is normal in selfhost supabase setup ?? currently supabase_admin has 33 connections in total

Image

After that i run this command. You can see that there are so many idle connections. is it is okay ?? select usename, application_name,state from pg_stat_activity where state = 'idle';

usename application_name state
authenticator PostgREST 12.2.12 (cd3cf9e) idle
authenticator PostgREST 12.2.12 (cd3cf9e) idle
supabase_storage_admin idle
supabase_admin supavisor_meta idle
supabase_admin supavisor_meta idle
supabase_admin supavisor_meta idle
supabase_admin supavisor_meta idle
supabase_admin cluster_node_supavisor@f63b2489e6a1 idle
supabase_admin cluster_node_supavisor@f63b2489e6a1 idle
supabase_admin supavisor_meta idle
supabase_admin supabase_mt_realtime idle
supabase_admin supabase_mt_realtime idle
supabase_admin supabase_mt_realtime idle
supabase_admin supabase_mt_realtime idle
supabase_admin supabase_mt_realtime idle
supabase_admin idle
supabase_admin idle
supabase_admin idle
supabase_admin idle
supabase_admin idle
supabase_admin idle
supabase_admin idle
supabase_admin idle
supabase_admin idle
supabase_admin idle
supabase_admin idle
supabase_admin idle
supabase_admin idle

Is there any way to remove these idle connections ?? So that supabase_admin & other roles has only active connections

RishabhPachori avatar Jun 09 '25 13:06 RishabhPachori