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post_auth_delay
The amount of time to delay when a new server process is started, after it conducts the authentication procedure. This is intended to give developers an opportunity to attach to the server process with a debugger. If this value is specified without units, it is taken as seconds. A value of zero (the default) disables the delay. This parameter cannot be changed after session start.
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- Unknown
- extra desc
- This allows attaching a debugger to the process.
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- min val
- 0
- name
- post_auth_delay
- short desc
- Sets the amount of time to wait after authentication on connection startup.
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Definition PG 18
The amount of time to delay when a new server process is started, after it conducts the authentication procedure. This is intended to give developers an opportunity to attach to the server process with a debugger. If this value is specified without units, it is taken as seconds. A value of zero (the default) disables the delay. This parameter cannot be changed after session start.
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<p>
The amount of time to delay when a new
server process is started, after it conducts the
authentication procedure. This is intended to give developers an
opportunity to attach to the server process with a debugger.
If this value is specified without units, it is taken as seconds.
A value of zero (the default) disables the delay.
This parameter cannot be changed after session start.
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