Re: Implement support for TCP_KEEPCNT, TCP_KEEPIDLE, TCP_KEEPINTVL

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Implement support for TCP_KEEPCNT, TCP_KEEPIDLE, TCP_KEEPINTVL
Date: 2005-05-26 17:50:25
Message-ID: 3772.1117129825@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> I am not very excited about adding four more GUC variables, and I am
> thinking we could just have it use the OS defaults and see if we need
> more later, so that would add only one GUC.

Huh? "Use the OS defaults" is where we are now.

I'm unconvinced of the value of allowing people to turn off keepalive
entirely, and therefore I question the need for the boolean
tcp_keepalives GUC, but the other three appear useful.

regards, tom lane

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