Doubt Regarding changes to disable keepalives in walsender

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From: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com>
To: "'Simon Riggs'" <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, "'Pg Hackers'" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Doubt Regarding changes to disable keepalives in walsender
Date: 2012-09-20 10:55:40
Message-ID: 005d01cd971e$7a1238c0$6e36aa40$@kapila@huawei.com
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In commit da4efa13d801ccc179f1d2c24d8a60c4a2f8ede9, sending of keepalive
messages have been disabled in walsender.
Commit message is " Turn off WalSender keepalives by default, users can
enable if desired."

But I am not able to see how users can enable it, can you please point me if
I am missing something?

This doubt came as I am implementing replication timeout for walreceiver and
for that walsender has to send some form of heartbeat message at predefined
interval. I wanted to use keepalive to achieve the same, but then noticed
the above and got stuck.

With Regards,

Amit Kapila.