Leandro Lucarella napisal 2006-11-29 20:49:
> Is there any keep alive support in libpq? I'm not really using libpq
> directly, I'm using libpqxx and there is no keep-alive support there,
> so I'm trying to use TCP's own keep-alive support, but I have a
> problem: libpq seems to reconnect the socket when the connection is lost.
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> In the sleep time I unplug the network cable and monitor the TCP
> connection using netstat -pano, and found all the TCP keep-alive
> timers times out perfectly, closing the connection, but inmediatly I
> see a new connection (and without the keep-alive parameters, so it
> take forever to timeout again). So I guess libpq is re-opening the
> socket. This is making my life a nightmare =)
I used keepalive the same way as you (reconfiguring socket directly) and
I don't remember libpq trying to reconnect itself. I think it's a
libpqxx's behaviour - I didn't use it, but it looks like it is called
"reactivation".
Regards,
Tomasz Myrta
