Marek Peca <marek@xxxxxxx> writes: >> In any case, that complaint should be directed to your kernel vendor >> not us. We do not control how long the TCP stack waits before declaring >> the connection dead. > Well, this is what I wanted to hear. So if I call PQstatus() or PQexec(), > the libpq sends some data to the TCP pipe, and you expect, that my broken > underlying TCP/IP subsystem pretends, that the connection is OK and the > data have been sent. Right? Well, if you *never* get a failure, then yeah I think you have a broken TCP stack. The default timeouts on this sort of thing are annoyingly long, but they aren't infinite. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general