| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to> |
| Cc: | Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: tcp_keepalives_idle |
| Date: | 2014-03-08 03:03:42 |
| Message-ID: | 20140308030342.GE16324@momjian.us |
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:32:23AM +0100, Marko Tiikkaja wrote:
> On 11/14/13 7:08 AM, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> >>It means "the connection is idle except for keepalive packets".
> >>We could perhaps just drop the word "otherwise", if people find
> >>it confusing.
> >
> >Wah. I seemed to completely misunderstand what the pharase
> >says. Thanks for clarification. I agree to drop "otherwise".
>
> I had some problem interpreting these explanations as well:
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/527A21F1.2000408@joh.to
>
> Compare that to the description in the libpq documentation:
> "Controls the number of seconds of inactivity after which TCP should
> send a keepalive message to the server.".
Good point. I have improved the server-side keepalive parameter
descriptions to use the superior libpq text, with adjustment.
Applied patch attached.
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