Agreed but why is there a message specification for it describe in the documentation and it ask to client reply back if a particular *bit* is set.(1 means that the client should reply to this message as soon as possible, to avoid a timeout disconnect. 0 otherwise)
Primary keepalive message (B)
Byte1('k')
Identifies the message as a sender keepalive.
Int64
The current end of WAL on the server.
Int64
The server's system clock at the time of transmission, as microseconds since midnight on 2000-01-01.
Byte1
1 means that the client should reply to this message as soon as possible, to avoid a timeout disconnect. 0 otherwise.
The receiving process can send replies back to the sender at any time, using one of the following message formats (also in the payload of a CopyData message):
On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 7:39 PM Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com> wrote:
Implemented the Logical Streaming Replication thing are working fine I see the XLogData message appearing and I'm able to parse them.
But I haven't see any "Primary Keepalive message" yet. I had tried setting the tcp_keepalive_interval, tcp_keepalives_idle both from client runtime paramter and well as from postgresql.conf still no clue of it.
Any information around it?
Both of these options are not in the Pg protocol. They are within the OS TCP stack and are not visible to the applications at all.
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