Re: [HACKERS] pgsql: Add support for TCP keepalives on Windows, both for backend and

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 18:37, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> Here's what I came up with and will apply as soon as my msvc build
>> completes. (the mingw one works with this)
>
> This is still going to need manual adjustment in the future, since
> probably when mingw adds the #define, they will put it in <mstcpip.h>,
> and this code will not see it.  So at some point we'll need to add an
> autoconf test for <mstcpip.h> and replace those #ifdef
> WIN32_ONLY_COMPILER checks with #ifdef HAVE_MSTCPIP_H.  But I see no
> need to bother until such a version of mingw exists, and I'd just as
> soon not be making such changes on the day of a wrap.  So this is just
> a note for later.

Agreed.

And it's far from certain they'll actually add it to mstcpip.h -
sometimes they stick it in a different header...


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