On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 at 17:35, Jelte Fennema <postg...@jeltef.nl> wrote:
> Another approach is to use tcp_user_timeout instead of connect_timeout > to skip non-responsive hosts. It's not completely equivalent though to > connection_timeout though, since it also applies when the connection > is actually being used. Also it only works on Linux afaik. It could be > nice to add support for BSD its TCP_CONNECTIONTIMEOUT socket option. This seems brittle and platform-dependent enough that we would surely receive less grief by hardcoding a default two minutes timeout. -- Daniele