Re: TCP keepalive support for libpq - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Peter Geoghegan
<peter.geoghegan86@gmail.com> wrote:
>> keepalive doesn't work,
>> then it would have to wait for a long time until it detects
>> the outage.
>
> I'm not really sure what you mean. In this scenario, would it take as
> long as it would have taken had keepalives not been used?

Please see the following threads.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2006-08/msg00098.php
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0508.2/0757.html

Regards,

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