On 27 March 2013 12:30, Krzysztof Bieleń <[email protected]> wrote:
> W dniu 2013-03-27 12:35, Mateusz Loskot pisze:
>> The trick is that implementing session::is_connected with consistent
>> semantic across variety of backends is not easy, it may be impossible.
>> For example, function PQstatus check only state cached by libpq
>> library: session sql(...) sql.is_connected() -> CONNECTION_OK //
>> someone unplugs power cord of the database server sql.is_connected()
>> -> CONNECTION_OK There is know way libpq to detect external causes of
>> connection lost It can detect local causes only. Unless,something has
>> changed in libpq lately
>
> Yes, I'm aware of this. Teoretically I saw people using query like
> "SELECT 1" for purpose of checking connection state. Maybe it will be
> sufficient solution for default 'is_connected()' for all backends.

There is even PQping, but I'm not sure if silently sampling server over
network is best approach, I've seen it criticised on pgsql- mailing lists.

> I will try to read more about this and how it should be done.

Thanks, I haven't researched it deeply myself, so I'd like to stand corrected.

>>> Also maybe there should be possibility to create connection_pool with
>>> parameter auto_reconnect = true; which ensures that sessions taken from
>>> connection_pool are connected or it will throw execption.
>> Good idea, if you would be willing to submit pull request, please do so.
>> (If it's not a hassle, branch off of 'develop' please into feature/yourbranch
>> i.e. feature/pool_auto_reconnect, trying to make us flowed by gitflow :))
>
> Yes, I thought about this. But lately I'm out of of time so I decided to
> write this here along with this topic.

Understood.
Just so you know, long-running pull requests that we work on with
review-update-review iterations are fine.
So, don't worry if you have something but incomplete, just push it out :)

Best regards,
--
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net

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