Re: Keepalives win32

Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> [ can't read system's keepalive values in windows ]

> The way I see it, we have two options:
> 1) Read the default value from the registry. That's some fairly ugly code, imho.
> 2) Ignore the registry value and use the default value of 2 hours/1
> second. That will override any changes the user made in the registry,
> which seems pretty ugly.
> 3) Require that these two parameters are always specified together (on
> windows). Which is annoying.

I vote for #2. It's the least inconsistent --- we don't pay attention
to the registry for much of anything else, do we?

In practice I think people who were setting either would set both, so
it's not worth a huge amount of effort to have an unsurprising behavior
when only one is set.

regards, tom lane