Hi, There was no user involved, as far as I can see. The connection attempts are refused at the door :) Mine kept going indefinitely, but by trial-and-error I found the application process causing the connection attempts. Thanks for the input though. -dennis -- Geysir IT dth@xxxxxxxxxxx http://geysirit.dk +45 31 51 60 00 On 13/04/2010, at 15.44, Kevin Grittner wrote: > Dennis Thrysøe<dth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Yes, that tells me that connection attempts are from the local >> host on incrementing port numbers for each attempt. > > Is the user your database superuser? When I start a warm standby I > get one such message per second from pg_ctl for one minute; then > they stop. Yours keep going indefinitely? > > If you are using pg_ctl, can you show us the *exact* command used > (specifically including the -t parameter, if used)? Does your > process list show any pg_ctl instances running while this is > happening? > > -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin