Yes, it seems process 5479 hit the max_connections of PostgreSQL while connecting to it. Best regards, -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp > Hello everyone in the list, testing pgpool a failover is triggered but the > master is running. The pgpool version is 3.5.5. This is the log reported by > pgpool. > > > > Could anybody help me to clarify this error? > > > > The reason could be postgresql server has reached max_connections? > > > > Regards. > > 2017-02-23 14:18:58: pid 5303: ERROR: unable to read data > > 2017-02-23 14:18:58: pid 5303: DETAIL: child connection forced to terminate > due to client_idle_limit:300 is reached > > 2017-02-23 14:25:31: pid 5479: LOG: pool_read_kind: error message from 1 th > backend:sorry, too many clients already > > 2017-02-23 14:25:31: pid 5479: ERROR: unable to read message kind > > 2017-02-23 14:25:31: pid 5479: DETAIL: kind does not match between > master(52) slot[1] (45) > > 2017-02-23 14:25:36: pid 5287: ERROR: failed to authenticate > > 2017-02-23 14:25:36: pid 5287: DETAIL: invalid authentication message > response type, Expecting 'R' and received 'E' > > 2017-02-23 14:25:41: pid 55651: ERROR: failed to authenticate > > 2017-02-23 14:25:41: pid 55651: DETAIL: invalid authentication message > response type, Expecting 'R' and received 'E' > > 2017-02-23 14:25:41: pid 55651: ERROR: failed to authenticate > > 2017-02-23 14:25:41: pid 55651: DETAIL: invalid authentication message > response type, Expecting 'R' and received 'E' > > 2017-02-23 14:25:41: pid 55651: LOG: setting backend node 1 status to NODE > DOWN > > 2017-02-23 14:25:41: pid 55651: LOG: received degenerate backend request > for node_id: 1 from pid [55651] > > 2017-02-23 14:25:41: pid 55651: LOG: starting degeneration. shutdown host > 192.168.5.19(5432) > -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin