On Wednesday 15 April 2009 19:21:03 you wrote: > Janning Vygen <vygen@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Now i see that the errors occur _exactly_ every 4000 seconds (1 hour, 6 > > minutes and 40 seconds). I have no clue as i only have one cronjob at > > night concerning postgresql. I have no autovacuum running (only manual at > > night). my application cronjobs are only running at night. i have a few > > threads but no thread has a sleep time of 4000 millis, besides the fact > > that they all work fine. Maybe i have to check my c3p0 pool. however, i > > know i have to search for my own, as you can't look into my app. But > > maybe someone has a hint, that something inside or outside postgresql is > > usually running every 4000 seconds? > > There's nothing inside of postgres that would operate on such a > schedule. Furthermore, unless I'm all wet about where the error is > coming from, this *must* be happening during receipt of a command from > an external client. You were right. > Perhaps turning on log_connections would give you a clue about what it > is. thanks. Turning log_connections on helped me a lot! I found a buggy query from my postfix mailserver which retried the query every 4000 seconds. thanks again for this excellent database and excellent support. kind regards Janning > Also set log_line_prefix to make sure you can match up the error > report with the previous connection log entry (adding the PID is usually > enough). > > regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general