* Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> [070514 10:24]:
> This is not a behavior required by the TCP spec AFAICS. Also, in a
> quick test neither Linux nor HPUX appear to need SO_REUSEADDR --- on
> both, I can restart the postmaster immediately without it.
Did you have an active connection before restarting?
In HylaFAX, we had the same situation and went to using SO_REUSEADDR:http://bugs.hylafax.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217
The problem appears if there *was* a connection, and the server was
stopped. Then the server can't bind again until the TIME_WAIT
connection goes away. Using SO_REUSEADDR allows the new server to
listen again right away.
a.
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