On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 15:55, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 10:40:46AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info> writes:
> > > I know that the Debian package does not -- or at least didn't used to
> > > -- check for deadlocks at all,
> >
> > [blinks] What?
>
> Hmm. I just checked my home box (where I have the Debian package
> installed), and it seems no longer to be the case. There's no entry
> for deadlock_timeout, so the default (1000, IIRC) is what gets used,
> I guess. I have a dim memory, however, of a comment in the old
> config file to the effect that the (Debian) default setting of
> deadlock_timeout was infinite, i.e. effectively no deadlock checking.
>
> Hmm. I just checked an ancient box with 6.5 on it, and it's not
> there. Maybe I'm on crack.
I fear so :-)
I'm sure I've never made any such change to the package.
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