I looked through the source and i didn't use pg_pconnect nowhere. Now, it's working again. This is the point. I'm thinking about if a search engine robot could eat up all my available connection. Some days ago the site site was registered in a few new search engine, but during some dump/restore the robots ad norobots files disappeared. There are a lot of hot links on the main page (all requires a pg_connect()). Maybe the robot engaged all connections. I'm about to gain some access to the host to figure out what happened. In the meanwhile I 'd like to know only when this error message is shown. Because I couldn't find it in the Postgres docs. BTW, I appreciate your help, thanks a lot. Papp Gyozo - pgerzson@xxxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: "Papp Gyozo" <pgerzson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <pgsql-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 11:02 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Unable to connect to PostgresSQL server: Backend startup | I couldn't be sure anything because I've no access to that machine. | BTW, I assume when PostgreSQL is down, an other errormessage is | returned? | | | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Jeff Self" <jself@xxxxxxxxx> | To: "Papp Gyozo" <pgerzson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> | Cc: <pgsql-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 8:47 PM | Subject: Re: [PHP] Unable to connect to PostgresSQL server: Backend startup | | | | Are you sure PostgreSQL is running? | | | | On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 12:12, Papp Gyozo wrote: | | > Hi everybody, | | > | | > do you know in what circumstances this error is shown up? | | > | | > Unable to connect to PostgresSQL server: Backend startup failed in /www-data/main.php on line 14 | | > | | > yesterday everything was OK, but today ... | | > I'm afraid of that my configuration cannot fork more backend, | | > my clients eat up all available backends. Could it be? | | > The server is an old one: 7.0.2. | | > | | > | | > Papp Gyozo | | > - pgerzson@xxxxxxxxxxxx | | >