Add the ability to send app-layer keepalive pings#1553
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The config option is named with "default_" under the [connection] section on the theory that it might one day be configurable by individual connections.
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Works with the basic use case of running queries in the CLI. Can test by setting wait_timeout to something low, waiting that long, then running a query and it will reconnect. But if you enable the keepalive to less than the wait_timeout, then you should not see a reconnect after that time.
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The config option is named with
default_under the[connection]section on the theory that it might one day be configurable by individual connections.It may be hard to prove when this works/does something useful. But I have the issue of frequent reconnections with some servers, and this feature seems to be provided by MySQL Workbench:
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changelog.mdfile.AUTHORSfile (or it's already there).