John, Just wanted to reply that this seems to have been the right track. Rather than change the firewall settings, our network administrator was able set postgres to send a keepalive to the client. Thanks, --Lee On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Lee Hachadoorian <lee.hachadoorian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:01 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> are you running pgadmin and postgres server on the same computer, or on >> different computers? > > Different computers. >> >> if different computers, is there any sort of connection tracking in between, >> such as a NAT router/gateway? >> >> 15-20 mins sounds a lot like the typical NAT idle connection timeout... > > I will have to ask the network administrator and respond. > > Thanks, > --Lee -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general