Keep Alive PGAdmin 1.8

Sirs

Thank You firstly for your fine front-end administration tool to
Postgres.. As an ex ORACLE D.B.A. I appreciate what you have done.

There is one point that I have not had the time or patience to find ..

Perhaps my postgres servers are configured incorrectly but they have
a wonderful habit ( of which I highly approve) of chucking out
"idle" connections.

Unfortunately my PGAdmin 1.8 connection is also seen as an "idle"
connection after some period of non use ..

The result is that any open connection to a server freezes and
subsequently the tool hangs (On a Windows XP platform ) .

Is there some way to use either a "keep alive" signal from PGAdmin or
a server postgresql.conf setting that applies only to this client that
will prevent this from happening?

ie PGAdmin stays connected and alive indefinitely ..

many thanks in advance for your kind attention.

Fil Matthews

(DBA since before databases were born .. )