Florian Pflug <f...@phlo.org> writes: > On Jun 19, 2010, at 21:13 , Tom Lane wrote: >> This is nonsense --- the slave's kernel *will* eventually notice that >> the TCP connection is dead, and tell walreceiver so. I don't doubt >> that the standard TCP timeout is longer than people want to wait for >> that, but claiming that it will never happen is simply wrong.
> No, Robert is correct AFAIK. If you're *waiting* for data, TCP > generates no traffic (expect with keepalive enabled). Mph. I was thinking that keepalive was on by default with a very long interval, but I see this isn't so. However, if we enable keepalive, then it's irrelevant to the point anyway. Nobody's produced any evidence that keepalive is an unsuitable solution. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers