On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Juan Backson<juanbackson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am writing my own connection pool for libpq's connection.
>
> My goal is to try to reduce the amount of time spent in opening and closing
> socket. However, I see that Postgres would close my connection after every
> so often.
it's not postgres, most likely someone in the middle is closing
inactive connections, typically after 3-5 minutes. check out the
keepalive settings in postgresql.conf to handle this on the tcp level
(better than throwing a select 1).
merlin