On 9/22/14 10:57 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2014-09-22 07:42:01 +0100, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
>> Is this intentional? Is there a better way to check for a broken connection?
>
> Note that the libpq code treats connection resets differently from
> other, arbitrary, errors:
>
> I.e. if the kernel returns that the connection has been closed it'll do
> different stuff.
>
> So I'm not convinced that the testcaseq is valid. This isn't the error
> you'd get after a timeout or similar. We could add a special case path
> for EBADFD, but why?
Probably not for EBADFD, but how about e.g. ETIMEDOUT? The SSL code
path seems to be putting EPIPE into the same category as ECONNRESET, too.
.marko