[Pkg-postgresql-public] Bug#255208: Bug#255208: obsolete?

[Christoph Berg]

Re: Peter Eisentraut 2016-08-08 <1e904e8c-0abc-71ac-6d19-bb7255cecd6d at debian.org>
> On 8/8/16 10:05 AM, Christoph Berg wrote:
> > I'm still curious why PG doesn't just cancel the query by itself on
> > SIGPIPE. Is there any value in running queries to completion when the
> > user has already left? Are these queries even committed?
> 
> I haven't tested this in detail for local socket connections, but for
> TCP/IP, the backend carries on if the client disappears.  The
> server-side TCP keepalive settings are there to control this to some extent.

I mean... why? If PG receives SIGPIPE in that case (I haven't tested
it, but I believe it does), why carry on?

(Of course TCP keepalive is still useful for the cases where the remote
OS didn't send a RST, but when it does, why not use it?)

Christoph
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