From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tollef Fog Heen <tollef(dot)fog(dot)heen(at)collabora(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: TCP keepalive support for libpq |
Date: | 2010-02-15 16:18:40 |
Message-ID: | 603c8f071002150818n32c617b0h126417514078689d@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> If this were actually a low-risk patch I might think it was okay to try
>>> to shoehorn it in now; but IME nothing involving making new use of
>>> system-dependent APIs is ever low-risk. Look at Greg's current
>>> embarrassment over fsync, a syscall I'm sure he thought he knew all
>>> about.
>
>> That's why I think we shouldn't change the default behavior, but
>> exposing a new option that people can use or not as works for them
>> seems OK.
>
> That's assuming they get as far as having a working libpq to try it
> with. I'm worried about the possibility of inducing compile or link
> failures. "It works in the backend" doesn't give me that much confidence
> about it working in libpq.
>
> I'm all for this as a 9.1 submission, but let's not commit to trying to
> debug it now. I would like a green buildfarm for awhile before we wrap
> alpha4, and this sort of untested "it can't hurt" patch is exactly what
> is likely to make things not green.
Mmm. OK, fair enough.
...Robert
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