On 2/9/23 09:40, Dominique Devienne wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 5:51 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
> <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>> wrote:
>
> On 2/9/23 08:16, Dominique Devienne wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 5:05 PM Adrian Klaver
> <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
> The flip side of that is that with known ports it would it easier to
> have a process on the Postgres machine or in the database that checks
> the ports on regular basis. And as part of that process mark any non
> responding ports as inactive. That would solve the zombie problem.
>
>
> That's one possibility. But the "reaper" process could just as well scan
> the service table,
> and probe those too. So again, I'm not sure what the fixed-port approach
> gains me, beside
> perhaps the reaper not having to connect to PostgreSQL itself. I'm OK
> with connecting.
What is the reaper process?
>
> Thanks for the your input. Always good to have one's arguments
> challenged by experts.
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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
