On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Marek Peca <marek@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear Vick, > >> I have very similar code written in Perl, and I never observe failures >> like you see after a timeout on the select call. This code has been >> in production on farily busy systems for several years now. > > can you tell me, which libpq and server versions you are running on? > I have constant problems with libpq 8.3.7, connecting remotely to server of > the same version. Right now we're running Pg 8.3.7, but we have been doing this since 8.1 days if not earlier. Everything here is on a local LAN and runs FreeBSD. Based on the other messages in this thread, I'll vote one of your VPN or NAT boxes is breaking the expectations of your network stack. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general