Re: [SQL] Unclosed connections

From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "PostgreSQL Admin" <postgres(at)productivitymedia(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Unclosed connections
Date: 2008-01-25 16:19:09
Message-ID: dcc563d10801250819h2260eafbl8f56b65b979b6c7d@mail.gmail.com
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On Jan 25, 2008 10:02 AM, PostgreSQL Admin
<postgres(at)productivitymedia(dot)com> wrote:
> We are using this bad piece of the software that does not close
> connections to the postgres server. Is there some setting for closing
> dead connections? And not TCP/IP keep alive does not work.

If the TCP keepalive can't detect them as dead, how is something else
supposed to? I.e. if a keepalive packet gets answered, then the
connection isn't dead, something is still connected to it.

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