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[Honza Horak <hhorak@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys,

there are apparently some tools out there [1], that check if the server 
is up quite often, while not closing the connection properly. It 
eventually ends in 'many connection errors', because max_connect_errors 
is always limited now.

I understand that this way of checking may be wrong, but there may be 
scenarios where we do not want to check for `max_connect_errors` at all.

So, would it be acceptable for mariadb to change behaviour of 
max_connect_errors option, so that it accepts also 0 as a possible 
value, which would mean 'do not check connect errors at all'?

I'm bringing the idea here first, but will submit a report and possibly 
patch if it does not seem to be undesired behaviour.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104957

TIA and regards,
Honza