Re: Feature freeze date for 8.1

"Dave Held" <dave.held@arraysg.com> writes:
> How about an optional second connection to send keepalive pings?
> It could be unencrypted and non-blocking.  If authentication is
> needed on the ping port (which it doesn't seem like it would need
> to be), it could be very simple, like this:

> * client connects to main port
> * server authenticates client normally
> * server sends nonce token for keepalive authentication
> * client connects to keepalive port
> * client sends nonce token on keepalive port
> * server associates matching keepalive connection with main 
>     connection
> * if server does not receive matching token within a small
>     timeout, no keepalive support enabled for this session


This seems to have nothing whatever to do with the stated problem?
        regards, tom lane