Tom Lane wrote:
> > If the connection gets accepted, I'd expect *something* in the
> > postmaster logs -- can you check?
>
> I suspect Merlin's complaint has to do with the fact that the *user*
> doesn't see any error message. The way you've coded this, setsockopt
> failure during startup is treated as a communications failure and so
> there's no attempt to report the problem to the client.
Correct. In fact, when I posted I did completely miss the log message
due to initdb resetting log_destination. Confirmed:
LOG: setsockopt(TCP_KEEPIDLE) not supported
in server log.
Merlin