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Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add TCP keepalive support to libpq.

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-06-24T17:40:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 10:30 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:

> It lets you set
> the TCP keepalive parameters on the server side, whereas what this
> patch does is let you set them on the client side.  Only setting them
> on the client side will allow the client to notice when the server has
> gone away.

Thank you for explaining. Now I understand.

It sort of begs the question: why need they be different?

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