Idle connection timeout

I saw a recent blog entry where someone came up with a solution for expiring idle connections (<a
href="http://dividebyzeroexception.blogspot.com/2009/10/implementing-waittimeout-in-postgresql.html">http://dividebyzeroexception.blogspot.com/2009/10/implementing-waittimeout-in-postgresql.html</a>)
andI was surprised there wasn't a config option for this already.  Is this something that can be considered for a
futurerelease?<br /><br />Thanks<br /><br />Thom