Re: TCP keepalive support for libpq

Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com> writes:
> Magnus Hagander escreveu:
>> If we want to do this, I'd be inclined to say we sneak this into 9.0..
>> It's small enough ;)
>> 
> I'm afraid Robert will say a big NO. ;) I'm not against your idea; so if
> nobody objects go for it *now*.

If Robert doesn't I will.  This was submitted *way* past the appropriate
deadline; and if it were so critical as all that, why'd we never hear
any complaints before?

If this were actually a low-risk patch I might think it was okay to try
to shoehorn it in now; but IME nothing involving making new use of
system-dependent APIs is ever low-risk.  Look at Greg's current
embarrassment over fsync, a syscall I'm sure he thought he knew all
about.
        regards, tom lane