Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> What's your idea of "affecting the fewest people"? There is no previous >> history to be backward-compatible with, because we never supported >> keepalive on Windows before.
> Well, starting in 9.0, keepalives in libpq will default to 'on': Yes, which is already a change in behavior. I don't understand why you are worrying about "backwards compatibility" to parameter values that weren't in use before. I think self-consistency of the new version is far more important than that. > even if we use Windows defaults, those defaults might be different for > different Windows versions. I'm not sure if that's an issue or not, but if it is, that seems to me to argue for #2 not #1. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers