Matthew Hagerty writes:
> I am trying to re-establish a connection, however, I cannot afford to issue
> a query to determine if the connection still exists.
But requesting that the server do something *is* the only way to know
whether it's still alive. Another question to ask, of course, would be,
why is your server always going down?
> I've been digging into the libpq code to see what is going on, maybe I can
> gleam a little hint or two there... Anyone know a good *fast* way to test
> if a socket is still valid?
Try to send or receive something.
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