Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> The only time the server will wait for a time out is if the server and
> the client are on different machines and something disrupts actual
> communications.
Right, you need connectivity loss to create an issue --- a client
program crash doesn't cause this type of problem. The most common
form of the problem that I've heard about is routers deciding to drop a
connection that's been idle too long.
BTW, on some platforms it's possible to change the timeout settings so
that a lost connection is abandoned more quickly by the TCP stack.
See the tcp_keepalives_xxx parameters if you need to do that.
regards, tom lane
