Hello, Tom.
You wrote:
TL> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> What's your idea of "affecting the fewest people"? There is no previous
>>> history to be backward-compatible with, because we never supported
>>> keepalive on Windows before.
>> Well, starting in 9.0, keepalives in libpq will default to 'on':
TL> Yes, which is already a change in behavior. I don't understand why you
TL> are worrying about "backwards compatibility" to parameter values that
TL> weren't in use before. I think self-consistency of the new version is
TL> far more important than that.
Absolutely agree.
>> even if we use Windows defaults, those defaults might be different for
>> different Windows versions.
TL> I'm not sure if that's an issue or not, but if it is, that seems to me
TL> to argue for #2 not #1.
TL> regards, tom lane
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