Re: [PATCHES] Implement support for TCP_KEEPCNT, TCP_KEEPIDLE, TCP_KEEPINTVL (was Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze date for 8.1)

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com> writes:
> We could just log (already done inside pq_*, IIRC) and continue, instead
> of erroring out. It's just the way it is because I personally prefer
> misconfigurations to break loudly, so you have to fix them ;-)

Well, dropping the connection with no message (except in the postmaster
log, which is equivalent to /dev/null for way too many people) isn't
my idea of how to complain "loudly".  It just makes the software look
broken.

I'm not sure if we can issue a notice that will be seen on the client
side at this point in the startup cycle.  I seem to recall the protocol
document advising against sending NOTICEs during the authentication
cycle.  So the postmaster-log message may be the best we can do ...
but I don't think we should drop the connection.

			regards, tom lane