Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 22:39, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I had in mind just legislating that the defaults are the RFC values,
>> none of this "try to use the registry values in one case" business.
> Um, if you look at that patch, it doesn't try to use the registry. It
> falls back directly to the system default, ignoring the registry. The
> only special case is where the user doesn't specify any of the
> parameters.
What I was trying to say is I think we could dispense with the
setsockopt() code path, and just always use the WSAIoctl() path anytime
keepalives are turned on. I don't know what "system default values"
you're speaking of, if they're not the registry entries; and I
definitely don't see the point of consulting such values if they aren't
user-settable. We might as well just consult the RFCs and be done.
regards, tom lane
