On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 04:05:26PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Well, I think it would time out quickly --- anyway on the order of
> minutes not hours. By hypothesis, the situation you're worried about is
> where the backend was unable to send you a COMMIT acknowledgement
> message. The kernel is going to realize that it didn't get an ACK back,
> and is going to retry a few times, and is then going to declare the
> connection lost. The case where you may have a very long delay before
> detection of connection loss is where the backend is sitting idle with
> nothing to send.
That's one load off my mind, thanks.
Jeroen
