Re: Feature freeze date for 8.1

Tom Lane wrote:
> 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?

I can't see how you'd aggregate or discard any of those options without 
losing useful tuning knobs.. if you're going to have one, you might as 
well have them all.

-O