On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 04:05:26PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Well, I think it would time out quickly --- anyway on the order of > minutes not hours. By hypothesis, the situation you're worried about is > where the backend was unable to send you a COMMIT acknowledgement > message. The kernel is going to realize that it didn't get an ACK back, > and is going to retry a few times, and is then going to declare the > connection lost. The case where you may have a very long delay before > detection of connection loss is where the backend is sitting idle with > nothing to send.
That's one load off my mind, thanks. Jeroen ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])