Re: LOG: incomplete startup packet

[Rodrigo Hjort <rodrigo.hjort@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's it! There was a service monitoring application that does a kind of "nmap -p 5432" to the PostgreSQL server periodically.

2006/1/17, Tom Lane < tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Rodrigo Hjort < rodrigo.hjort@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> What is the cause of this line in the LOG?

> [2006-01-16 20:02:03 BRT] [unknown] LOG:  incomplete startup packet

Broken client software, or possibly something portscanning your machine.
It's reporting a bogus connection attempt.

                        regards, tom lane

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