Matthew Hagerty writes:

> I am trying to re-establish a connection, however, I cannot afford to issue
> a query to determine if the connection still exists.

But requesting that the server do something *is* the only way to know
whether it's still alive.  Another question to ask, of course, would be,
why is your server always going down?

> I've been digging into the libpq code to see what is going on, maybe I can
> gleam a little hint or two  there...  Anyone know a good *fast* way to test
> if a socket is still valid?

Try to send or receive something.

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Peter Eisentraut   [EMAIL PROTECTED]   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter


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