On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 09:49:04PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > It does not spend cycles looking aside to see if the > connection has dropped when it is doing something that doesn't involve > output to the client. Is this ever an interesting case? It would seem possible for something to test the client connections every once in a while to see if they're still valid. The postmaster seems like a reasonable place to do this to me, it has all the descriptors it just discards them at the moment. -- Sam http://samason.me.uk/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general