Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add TCP keepalive support to libpq. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 10:30 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:

> It lets you set
> the TCP keepalive parameters on the server side, whereas what this
> patch does is let you set them on the client side.  Only setting them
> on the client side will allow the client to notice when the server has
> gone away.

Thank you for explaining. Now I understand.

It sort of begs the question: why need they be different?

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