On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 10:41:19PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Brendan O'Shea" <brendanoshea@comcast.net> writes:
> > Is there no way to specify a timeout for the write() to the socket or some
> > other way to abort?
>
> This is really a question to take up with your TCP stack implementors.
> I think it is fundamentally wrong for Postgres to be second-guessing
> the network software about whether a network connection is still live.
It would ofcourse be nice if postgres could honour signals while
writing to the client, but the currently that's hard to do.
Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
