Re: Feature freeze date for 8.1

Tom Lane wrote:

> I'm not convinced that Postgres ought to provide
> a way to second-guess the TCP stack ... this looks to me like "I can't
> convince the network software people to provide me an easy way to
> override their decisions, so I'll beat up on the database people to
> override 'em instead.  Perhaps the database people don't know the issues
> and can be browbeaten more easily."

Would you be ok with a patch that allowed configuration of the 
TCP_KEEPCNT / TCP_KEEPIDLE / TCP_KEEPINTVL socket options on backend 
sockets?

-O