and more importantly, don't try to connect to the 37id database, which
will hang.
And finally, set the connect_timeout to something small so if we do
try to make a connection, it will fail quickly instead of hanging for
the default 120 seconds.
Although we aren't currently replicating anywhere there, this allows us
to still capture transactions, and trim the old ones. It also keeps beta
a little closer in configuration to production.
Mike Dalessio