On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 22:39, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> Here's what I'm thinking, for the libpq side. Similar change on the
>> server side. Seems ok?
>
> I had in mind just legislating that the defaults are the RFC values,
> none of this "try to use the registry values in one case" business.
Um, if you look at that patch, it doesn't try to use the registry. It
falls back directly to the system default, ignoring the registry. The
only special case is where the user doesn't specify any of the
parameters.
> I don't believe that you can make the server side act that way without
> much more ugliness than is warranted. Also, at least on the libpq side
> there is no backwards compatibility argument to be made, because we
> never turned on keepalives at all on that side in previous releases.
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