On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 18:51 +0200, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > > > > When exactly don't the keepalives work? > > well tcp level keepalives are not terribly portable(or can only be > partially controlledd from the app) and on some platforms have lower > limits that are in the minutes which is too long for a lot of usecases. > The keepalive usage we have in 9.0 is mostly for removing an annoyance > on some major platforms but depending on them for a major feature like > timeouts in sync rep is probably not a good idea.
If we need it, then I'm glad. It's easy to understand and easy to program too. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training and Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
