Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> What's your idea of "affecting the fewest people"? There is no previous
>> history to be backward-compatible with, because we never supported
>> keepalive on Windows before.
> Well, starting in 9.0, keepalives in libpq will default to 'on':
Yes, which is already a change in behavior. I don't understand why you
are worrying about "backwards compatibility" to parameter values that
weren't in use before. I think self-consistency of the new version is
far more important than that.
> even if we use Windows defaults, those defaults might be different for
> different Windows versions.
I'm not sure if that's an issue or not, but if it is, that seems to me
to argue for #2 not #1.
regards, tom lane
