Re: PGconn gets frozen ocassionally after select() timeout - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Marek Peca
Subject Re: PGconn gets frozen ocassionally after select() timeout
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.64.0911131816430.3778@tesla
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In response to Re: PGconn gets frozen ocassionally after select() timeout  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: PGconn gets frozen ocassionally after select() timeout
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> "Several hours" might be more like it.

Better than infinity, of course.

>  How long have you waited?

Two days, for example.

> In any case, that complaint should be directed to your kernel vendor
> not us.  We do not control how long the TCP stack waits before declaring
> the connection dead.

Well, this is what I wanted to hear. So if I call PQstatus() or PQexec(),
the libpq sends some data to the TCP pipe, and you expect, that my broken
underlying TCP/IP subsystem pretends, that the connection is OK and the
data have been sent. Right?


Thank you very much for your explanation.
Marek

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