Re: [pgadmin-support] Keep-alive?

2003-10-08 Thread Adam H.Pendleton
On Wednesday, Oct 8, 2003, at 07:27 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that adding an option to PgAdmin "send keepalive packages every <##> seconds" would be a valuable addition... I think this would be a much more viable solution than re-connecting to the database. ahp -

Re: [pgadmin-support] Keep-alive?

2003-10-08 Thread Michiel_Lange
This may very well be a firewall/router thing... Since the amount of sockets (which are needed for any TCP connection) is limited, your gateway/firewall may very well delete a socket that has been idle for a certain amount of time. There is a ICMP message KeepAlive, which does nothing but send som

Re: [pgadmin-support] Keep-alive?

2003-10-08 Thread Andreas Pflug
Adam H. Pendleton wrote: Network problems like this are usually better solved somewhere other than the application, since their impact usually affects more than just one application. I totally agree on that. Additionally, when we implement some kind of reconnect we must be quite careful abou

Re: [pgadmin-support] Keep-alive?

2003-10-08 Thread Adam H. Pendleton
Mark Rappoport wrote: Hi Dave, thanks for the swift reply. No, we're working on a server in a farm; the local office connection is a regular ADSL one, going through a Cisco PIX. The farm is about 4 hops away. I suppose that the PIX is somehow affecting the connection... There's probably a multitu

Re: [pgadmin-support] Keep-alive?

2003-10-08 Thread Dave Page
> -Original Message- > From: Mark Rappoport [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 08 October 2003 12:19 > To: Dave Page; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [pgadmin-support] Keep-alive? > > > Hi Dave, thanks for the swift reply. Hi Mark, you're welcome. > No, we're working on a server in a

Re: [pgadmin-support] Keep-alive?

2003-10-08 Thread Mark Rappoport
Hi Dave, thanks for the swift reply. No, we're working on a server in a farm; the local office connection is a regular ADSL one, going through a Cisco PIX. The farm is about 4 hops away. I suppose that the PIX is somehow affecting the connection... There's probably a multitude of factors affecting

Re: [pgadmin-support] Keep-alive?

2003-10-08 Thread Dave Page
> -Original Message- > From: Mark Rappoport [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 08 October 2003 12:01 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [pgadmin-support] Keep-alive? > > > Perhaps I've missed something - if so, I apologize for > wasting the list's time. > > Is there some support for k

[pgadmin-support] Keep-alive?

2003-10-08 Thread Mark Rappoport
Perhaps I've missed something - if so, I apologize for wasting the list's time. Is there some support for keeping PostgreSQL connections alive? That is, I often start PGAdmin and leave it idle in the background; when I return to it, and hit an item in the tree, I get about 10-15 message boxes tel