Re: [HACKERS] pgsql: Add support for TCP keepalives on Windows, both for backend and

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 18:06, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 17:45, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>>
>>> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Seems pretty simple - mingw doesn't have support for this. We have two
>>>> ways to deal with that I think:
>>>> 1) Disable it on mingw.
>>>> 2) Include it in our custom headers.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> For #2, what we need to include is the define of SIO_KEEPALIVE_VALS as
>>>> well as the definition of struct tcp_keepalive.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> We've done #2 before at least once, which worked well until mingw
>>>> suddenly caught up and added it a while later. It's not like this is a
>>>> new definition in windows, but we need to be ready for them to
>>>> eventually do that.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah.  I'm satisfied with doing #1 and waiting for them to fix it.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I guess there is:
>>>> 3) write an autoconf test and provide them only when mingw doesn't have
>>>> it.
>>>> if we're going with #3, I'll respectfully have to ask somebod yelse to
>>>> write the autoconf test, that's beyond me I think :-)
>>>>
>>>
>>> An easy approximation would be to make the code #ifdef SIO_KEEPALIVE_VALS.
>>> That would fail if the mingw guys decide to provide the #define without
>>> adding the struct at the same time, but that seems moderately unlikely.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> +1 for this course of action.
>
> Here's what I came up with and will apply as soon as my msvc build
> completes. (the mingw one works with this)

... and applied.

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