Re: What is happening on buildfarm member baiji?

* Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> [070514 10:24]:
 
> This is not a behavior required by the TCP spec AFAICS.  Also, in a
> quick test neither Linux nor HPUX appear to need SO_REUSEADDR --- on
> both, I can restart the postmaster immediately without it.

Did you have an active connection before restarting?

In HylaFAX, we had the same situation and went to using SO_REUSEADDR:
	http://bugs.hylafax.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217

The problem appears if there *was* a connection, and the server was
stopped.  Then the server can't bind again until the TIME_WAIT
connection goes away.  Using SO_REUSEADDR allows the new server to
listen again right away.

a.

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