Glen Eustace <geustace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > After an upgrade from 8.0.8 to 8.1.8, I am getting a number of our > scripts failing with 'connection refused' at around 4:00am, which seems > to be when the nightly database backup occurs. "Connection refused" is a kernel-level rejection, and at least in theory should have nothing to do with what Postgres is doing. Did you do a kernel update at the same time? regards, tom lane