On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Juan Backson<juanbackson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I am writing my own connection pool for libpq's connection. > > My goal is to try to reduce the amount of time spent in opening and closing > socket. However, I see that Postgres would close my connection after every > so often. it's not postgres, most likely someone in the middle is closing inactive connections, typically after 3-5 minutes. check out the keepalive settings in postgresql.conf to handle this on the tcp level (better than throwing a select 1). merlin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general