keepalive problem with libpg connection

Started by Juan Backsonover 16 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1Juan Backson
juanbackson@gmail.com

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.

What is the best solution for that? Should I regularly send some "Select 1"
to keep the connection alive or is there a better way to write a connection
pool for libpq?

Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.

JB

#2Merlin Moncure
mmoncure@gmail.com
In reply to: Juan Backson (#1)
Re: keepalive problem with libpg connection

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Juan Backson<juanbackson@gmail.com> 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