Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: PQcancel does not use tcp_user_timeout, connect_timeout and keepalive settings

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2021-12-28 15:49:00 +0000, Jelte Fennema wrote:
>> Finally, I would love it if once these fixes are merged the would also be backpatched to
>> previous versions of libpq.

> I'm not really convinced this is a good patch to backpatch. There does seem to
> be some potential for subtle breakage - code in signal handlers is notoriously
> finnicky, it's a rarely exercised code path, etc. It's also not fixing
> something that previously worked.

IMO, this is a new feature not a bug fix, and as such it's not backpatch
material ... especially if we don't have 100.00% confidence in it.

            regards, tom lane