> > Right. For this purpose, pgpool sends param packet to client
> > periodically while waiting for a reply from backend to detect if the
> > connection to the client is broken. If it's broken, pgool sends cancel
> > packet to backend not to waste backend machine's CPU cycle.
>
> The downside to this is that it will cause spurious failures for
> transient network failures even if the network comes back before it's
> actually needed.
Can't we expect such a transient error to be fixed by underlying
TCP/IP stack?
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
