Re: Keepalives win32

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Pavel Golub <pavel@gf.microolap.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-06-30T14:48:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 16:27, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.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