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From: Simon Riggs on 24 Jun 2010 13:38 On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 11:15 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Florian Pflug <fgp(a)phlo.org> writes: > > On Jun 24, 2010, at 16:45 , Robert Haas wrote: > >> I think the existing names are fine - people should understand that > >> "options" means "server-side options" and that anything else is a > >> client-side option. However, if there's a strong consensus the other > >> way and someone feels like working up a patch, that's fine too. > > > I'd volunteer to create the patch if people think renaming the libpq options is a good idea. > > I'm with Robert: the names are fine as-is. We've not had complaints > about the libpq SSL parameters being confusingly like server-side SSL > parameters, for instance. > > It might be a good idea to add a sentence to the documentation, though, > just pointing out that these control client-side keepalive probes rather > than server-side. Yes please. I was confused; I think others will be also. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers(a)postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
From: Simon Riggs on 24 Jun 2010 13:40 On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 10:30 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > It lets you set > the TCP keepalive parameters on the server side, whereas what this > patch does is let you set them on the client side. Only setting them > on the client side will allow the client to notice when the server has > gone away. Thank you for explaining. Now I understand. It sort of begs the question: why need they be different? -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers(a)postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
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