On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 09:49:04PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> It does not spend cycles looking aside to see if the
> connection has dropped when it is doing something that doesn't involve
> output to the client.
Is this ever an interesting case? It would seem possible for something
to test the client connections every once in a while to see if they're
still valid.
The postmaster seems like a reasonable place to do this to me, it has
all the descriptors it just discards them at the moment.
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