Hi all,
A while ago, I posted a pull request for PostgreSQL auto-reconnect, got some feedback on that, went back and tried again. I have had a second pull request up for quite a while now including tests that reveal the failure to reconnect (still broken or re-broken after #6477) and a fix for that problem.
This fixes a currently open issue for my employer if I can get it accepted and subsequently get that applied to the Rails versions our applications are using.
I'm still waiting to have my pull request accepted or rejected.