Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "K, Niranjan (NSN - IN/Bangalore)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Is there any other workaround or alternative so that the situation about
>> the interface is down is known and based on that the 'PQexec' does not
>> get blocked for ~15 minutes.

> Absent threads I think you have to use alarm() and a SIGALRM signal handler.

On most modern platforms you can adjust the TCP timeouts for the
connection.  There's no explicit support for that in libpq, but
you can just get the socket FD from it and do setsockopt().

                        regards, tom lane

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