You might know the server/network is down, so making the reconnect optional allows you to avoid a potentially long timeout.
It also makes it clear to the user that a reconnect is happening. You can see that in the terminal with psql, but in the gui, it would be easy to miss. On 11/21/09, Guillaume Lelarge <[email protected]> wrote: > Le jeudi 19 novembre 2009 à 08:29:00, Dave Page a écrit : >> The attached patch against svn trunk is a first cut WIP offering an >> option in the main window to reconnect to the database server if the >> connection is lost. >> >> I'd appreciate some feedback please, and some thought given to the >> question "does this break anything in any non-obvious ways?" >> > > I have tried it, and it works great. Anyways, I have one question: why does > it > ask if we want to reconnect? psql doesn't ask and try to reconnect as soon > as > it discovers the issue. I don't really understand what kind of issue a > direct > reconnect will bring us. > > > -- > Guillaume. > http://www.postgresqlfr.org > http://dalibo.com > -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgadmin-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-hackers
