On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Nicolas Barbier
<nicolas.barbier@gmail.com> wrote:
> According to the Two Generals' Problem [1], one of the sides
> necessarily doesn't know whether the other side has received its last
> packet. Therefore, TCP lets one of the sides sit in TIME_WAIT status
> for as long as any packets could in principle survive on the network
> (typically defined as 2 minutes on IP networks IIRC), and potentially
> disturb a new connection between the same (dst IP, dst port, src IP,
> src port) combination.
In other words, this is the way TCP is designed to work, not something
specific to PostgreSQL.
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Robert Haas
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