Hi Vikram, Please use the mailing lists instead of personal email.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Vikram Rangnekar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 October 2004 08:02 > To: Dave Page > Subject: stay-alive-ping in pgadmin > > I've noticed a problem that seems to occur with people using > personal firewalls which maintain per connection session > information. When using an app like pgadmin if I leave it > connected to the remote postgres server and dont really > perform any activity using pgadmin for sometime the firewall > session information expires and it stops passing pgadmin > traffic through it even though the tcp connection is still in > session so when I come back in say an hour and try to pgadmin > which I had previously left connected it crashes since the > connection is not technical closed but it cannot pass or > recive any traffic to and from the remote postgres server. > > so i suggest incorporating some kind of a keep-alive-ping > into pgadmin. All desktops apps which dont perform continuous > network activity and lie behind personal firewalls need a > mechanism like that. > where pgadmin does some random network activity every few > minutes or seconds a refresh of data from the server will do fine. This problem is discussed in the faq at: http://pgadmin.postgresql.org/pgadmin3/faq/#ConnDrop > thanks, and thank again for the aswome application is really > helped me a lot when I work with postgres. You're welcome. Regards, Dave ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
