Re: tcp_keepalives_idle

On 11/14/13 7:08 AM, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>> It means "the connection is idle except for keepalive packets".
>> We could perhaps just drop the word "otherwise", if people find
>> it confusing.
>
> Wah. I seemed to completely misunderstand what the pharase
> says. Thanks for clarification. I agree to drop "otherwise".

I had some problem interpreting these explanations as well: 
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/527A21F1.2000408@joh.to

Compare that to the description in the libpq documentation: "Controls 
the number of seconds of inactivity after which TCP should send a 
keepalive message to the server.".


Regards,
Marko Tiikkaja