Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Dave Held" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> How about an optional second connection to send keepalive pings? >> It could be unencrypted and non-blocking. If authentication is >> needed on the ping port (which it doesn't seem like it would need >> to be), it could be very simple, like this: > > > > This seems to have nothing whatever to do with the stated problem?
Yeah--one of the original scenarios was "firewall drops DB connection because it's inactive." Pinging over a second socket does nothing to address this. If you want to make sure network connection X is up, testing network connection Y, which happens to be between the same two processes, is only helpful in a limited set of circumstances. -Doug ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
