Tom Lane wrote:
> Oliver Jowett <oliver@opencloud.com> writes:
>
>>Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>>I'm not convinced that Postgres ought to provide
>>>a way to second-guess the TCP stack ...
>
>
>>Would you be ok with a patch that allowed configuration of the
>>TCP_KEEPCNT / TCP_KEEPIDLE / TCP_KEEPINTVL socket options on backend
>>sockets?
>
>
> [ shrug... ] As long as it doesn't fail to build on platforms that
> don't offer those options, I couldn't complain too hard. But do we
> really need all that?
I can't see how you'd aggregate or discard any of those options without
losing useful tuning knobs.. if you're going to have one, you might as
well have them all.
-O