Would it be possible for a long running select query on a standby to prevent the standby from sending status updates? This seemed to occur and consequently the master broke the connection: ### Master: 2012-10-31 00:56:44 UTC replicator 5057 192.168.1.20(45690) database [[unknown]] LOG: terminating walsender process due to replication timeout ### Slave: 2012-10-31 00:56:47 UTC 12834 database[] FATAL: could not send data to WAL stream: server closed the connection unexpectedly This probably means the server terminated abnormally before or while processing the request. 2012-10-31 00:57:02 UTC johndoe 27599 192.168.1.30(46426) database[main] LOG: duration: 65886.667 ms statement: select... ### Replication Config replication_timeout = 5s wal_receiver_status_interval = 2s Thanks, Jesse Hathaway -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general