On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Ben Carbery <ben.carbery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Or that OP has a networking issue. Some firewalls are known for >> dropping what they think are idle connections when they aren't. >> > > I don't think so.. EOF is an explicit termination, not a timeout as would > caused by a firewall dropping traffic. It's more like what happens when the > remote process on the client is killed for example. Postgres probably > expects to see some kind of "quit" command prior to receiving the EOF. Well, this is exactly the error I used to get when the problem was having a firewall timeout between client and server at my last job. The fix there was to play with the tcp_keepalive settings -- To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general