On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:03:42PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:32:23AM +0100, Marko Tiikkaja wrote:
> > On 11/14/13 7:08 AM, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > >>It means "the connection is idle except for keepalive packets".
> > >>We could perhaps just drop the word "otherwise", if people find
> > >>it confusing.
> > >
> > >Wah. I seemed to completely misunderstand what the pharase
> > >says. Thanks for clarification. I agree to drop "otherwise".
> >
> > I had some problem interpreting these explanations as well:
> > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/527a21f1.2000...@joh.to
> >
> > Compare that to the description in the libpq documentation:
> > "Controls the number of seconds of inactivity after which TCP should
> > send a keepalive message to the server.".
>
> Good point. I have improved the server-side keepalive parameter
> descriptions to use the superior libpq text, with adjustment.
>
> Applied patch attached.
Oops, now attached.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
new file mode 100644
index 86dbd0f..2811f11
*** a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
--- b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
*************** include 'filename'
*** 684,691 ****
</indexterm>
<listitem>
<para>
! Specifies the number of seconds before sending a keepalive packet on
! an otherwise idle connection. A value of 0 uses the system default.
This parameter is supported only on systems that support the
<symbol>TCP_KEEPIDLE</> or <symbol>TCP_KEEPALIVE</> symbols, and on
Windows; on other systems, it must be zero.
--- 684,692 ----
</indexterm>
<listitem>
<para>
! Specifies the number of seconds of inactivity after which TCP
! should send a keepalive message to the client. A value of 0 uses
! the system default.
This parameter is supported only on systems that support the
<symbol>TCP_KEEPIDLE</> or <symbol>TCP_KEEPALIVE</> symbols, and on
Windows; on other systems, it must be zero.
*************** include 'filename'
*** 708,715 ****
</indexterm>
<listitem>
<para>
! Specifies the number of seconds between sending keepalives on an
! otherwise idle connection. A value of 0 uses the system default.
This parameter is supported only on systems that support the
<symbol>TCP_KEEPINTVL</> symbol, and on Windows; on other systems, it
must be zero.
--- 709,717 ----
</indexterm>
<listitem>
<para>
! Specifies the number of seconds after which a TCP keepalive message
! that is not acknowledged by the client should be retransmitted.
! A value of 0 uses the system default.
This parameter is supported only on systems that support the
<symbol>TCP_KEEPINTVL</> symbol, and on Windows; on other systems, it
must be zero.
*************** include 'filename'
*** 732,739 ****
</indexterm>
<listitem>
<para>
! Specifies the number of keepalive packets to send on an otherwise idle
! connection. A value of 0 uses the system default. This parameter is
supported only on systems that support the <symbol>TCP_KEEPCNT</>
symbol; on other systems, it must be zero.
In sessions connected via a Unix-domain socket, this parameter is
--- 734,742 ----
</indexterm>
<listitem>
<para>
! Specifies the number of TCP keepalives that can be lost before
! the server's connection to the client is considered dead. A value of 0
! uses the system default. This parameter is
supported only on systems that support the <symbol>TCP_KEEPCNT</>
symbol; on other systems, it must be zero.
In sessions connected via a Unix-domain socket, this parameter is
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