On Tue, 2024-10-29 at 16:30 +0000, Daniel Westermann (DWE) wrote: > we're facing a strange issue with delays between "connection received" and "connection authenticated". > > # select version(); > version > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > PostgreSQL 15.6 (Ubuntu 15.6-1.pgdg22.04+1) on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0, 64-bit > (1 ligne) > > I know, this is not the latest minor version. > > # \! cat /etc/os-release | head -1 > PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS" > > What we see in the log is this (around 4 seconds delay): > > 2024-05-07 15:29:50.244 CEST [369909] LOG: connection received: host=xx.xx.xx.100 port=48434 > 2024-05-07 15:29:54.518 CEST [369909] LOG: connection authenticated: identity="xxxxxx" method=md5 (/etc/postgresql/15/main/pg_hba.conf:121) > > The matching line is this ( I know md5 ): > host all xxxxx xx.xx.xx.0/24 md5 > > What we've found out so far is, that this only happens if we have a localhost(or any other hostname) line before the line matching our connection, something like this: > host replication xxxxx localhost md5 > host all xxxxx xx.xx.xx.0/24 md5 I'd "strace" such a database connection to see where the time is spent. Yours, Laurenz Albe