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Thanks Melvin,

Let me experiment with it for a bit. I will let you know results.

Oleg

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Melvin Davidson <melvin6925@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Actually, I'm not an expert on the tcp_keepalives, but I  believe the tcp_keepalives_count should be 1, otherwise it will take 45 minutes minutes to timeout. Then again, I could be wrong.

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
oleg yusim <olegyusim@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Got it, thanks... Now, is it any protection in place currently against
> replacing Session ID (my understanding, it is kept in memory, belonging to
> the session process) or against guessing Session ID (i.e. is Session ID
> generated using FIPS 140-2 compliant algorithms, or anything of that sort)?

I don't think Postgres even has any concept that matches what you seem
to think a Session ID is.

If you're looking for communication security/integrity checking, that's
something we leave to other software such as SSL.

                        regards, tom lane


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