| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Pavel Golub <pavel(at)gf(dot)microolap(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Keepalives win32 |
| Date: | 2010-06-30 15:21:59 |
| Message-ID: | 10729.1277911319@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> What's your idea of "affecting the fewest people"? There is no previous
>> history to be backward-compatible with, because we never supported
>> keepalive on Windows before.
> Well, starting in 9.0, keepalives in libpq will default to 'on':
Yes, which is already a change in behavior. I don't understand why you
are worrying about "backwards compatibility" to parameter values that
weren't in use before. I think self-consistency of the new version is
far more important than that.
> even if we use Windows defaults, those defaults might be different for
> different Windows versions.
I'm not sure if that's an issue or not, but if it is, that seems to me
to argue for #2 not #1.
regards, tom lane
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