Re: Feature freeze date for 8.1

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?
        regards, tom lane