Re: Hung JDBC connections

On 06/09/2012 11:39 PM, Craig Ringer wrote:
>
> Of course, It's not very friendly for the JDBC driver to wait
> indefinitely without periodically checking and seeing if the
> connection was progressing, so I'm glad to see that's changed in 9.1.
>
I took a look at the 9.1 JDBC driver source code, very enlightening. I
see that Statement.setQueryTimeout() doesn't actually do anything! The
method sets a member variable which is never accessed locally or by any
subclasses or via getQueryTimeout(). There is even the following comment
in AbstractJdbc2Statement:
/** Timeout (in seconds) for a query (not used) */
protected int timeout = 0;

I see that ConnectionFactoryImpl does allow the underlying Socket's
so_timeout and so_keepalive options to be set using the connection
parameters string:
http://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/91/connect.html (socketTimeout
and tcpKeepAlive). Didn't realize these options existed, I will
definitely be taking advantage of these.

However, I see these options were available as far back as 8.4. What
exactly are these driver changes in 9.1 that you mentioned???

Mike