Re: Keepalives win32

Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 16:27, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> It's hard to argue about this when most of us have no idea what these
>> "system defaults" are, or whether they really are any different from the
>> RFC values in the first place, or whether ordinary users know how to
>> alter them or even find out their values. Please provide some
>> background if you want intelligent comments.

> The system defaults are whatever the user has configured at a machine
> level (by editing the registry, by hand or by tool (including
> policies)). I doubt many users have configured them by hand. There may
> well be tools that do it for them.

But you previously stated that this code was ignoring the registry
values. So doesn't "system defaults" boil down to whatever Windows'
wired-in defaults are?

regards, tom lane