Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The only time the server will wait for a time out is if the server and > the client are on different machines and something disrupts actual > communications. Right, you need connectivity loss to create an issue --- a client program crash doesn't cause this type of problem. The most common form of the problem that I've heard about is routers deciding to drop a connection that's been idle too long. BTW, on some platforms it's possible to change the timeout settings so that a lost connection is abandoned more quickly by the TCP stack. See the tcp_keepalives_xxx parameters if you need to do that. regards, tom lane
