Intermittent Postgres Connection refused Errors (JDBC)

Hi

I am managing an application that uses the Postgres backend. Of late we have
started getting connection refused errors every now and then. We have not been
able to identify the cause of this. Any hints or known bugs that I should be
aware of? Thanks for any help extended!

Regards

Srinivas

Here is the environment I work in:
Application is a Java app residing on a web server and is running on Tomcat.
Versions:
jdk: 1.5.0_02
Tomcat 5.5.23
Web server: httpd-2.0.52-28.ent.centos4
Kernel: Linux version 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp (mockbuild(at)builder5(dot)centos(dot)org) (gcc
version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)) #1 SMP Tue Feb 27 09:40:21 EST 2007
Postgres: 8.1.8 (64 bit version) -
postgresql-libs-8.1.8-1PGDG
postgresql-8.1.8-1PGDG
postgresql-server-8.1.8-1PGDG
postgresql-contrib-8.1.8-1PGDG

We use the JDBC2 driver that comes with Postgres.

The specific error we get is:

CDBConnectionPool.newConnection() : SQLException=
org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: Connection refused. Check that the hostname
and port are correct and that the postmaster is accepting TCP/IP connections.

Our CDBConnectionPool class as below (this is a class that we have implemented
to establish BD connections):

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.Vector;

class CDBConnectionPool
{
public synchronized Connection getConnection(String stIPAddress,String
stPort,String stDataBaseName, String stUser,String stPassword,String stDBType)
{
Connection con = null;
try
{
con =
newConnection(stIPAddress,stPort,stDataBaseName,stDBType,stUser,stPassword);
}
catch(Exception e)
{

Logger.toLog("CONNECTION",stDataBaseName,"CDBConnectionPool.getConnection:Except
ion="+e);
}
return con;
}

private Connection newConnection(String stIPAddress,String stPort,String
stDataBaseName,String stDBType,String stUser,String stPassword)
{
Connection con = null;
try
{
String stURL = "";
String stClassName = "";

if (stDBType.equals("ORACLE"))
{
stURL = "jdbc:oracle:thin:@"+ stIPAddress + ":" + stPort + ":" +
stDataBaseName ;
stClassName = "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver";
}
else if(stDBType.equals("POSTGRES"))
{
stURL = "jdbc:postgresql://"+stIPAddress+":"+stPort+"/"+stDataBaseName;
stClassName = "org.postgresql.Driver";
}
else if(stDBType.equals("MS-SQL2000"))
{
stURL =
"jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://"+stIPAddress+":"+stPort+";DatabaseName="+stDataBase
Name;
stClassName = "com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver";
}
else if(stDBType.equals("SYBASE"))
{
stURL = "jdbc:sybase:Tds:"+stIPAddress+":"+stPort+"/"+stDataBaseName;
stClassName = "com.sybase.jdbc2.jdbc.SybDriver";
}
else if(stDBType.equals("DB2"))
{
stURL = "jdbc:db2://"+stIPAddress+":"+stPort+"/"+stDataBaseName;
stClassName = "COM.ibm.db2.jdbc.net.DB2Driver";
}

Class.forName(stClassName);

con = DriverManager.getConnection(stURL,stUser,stPassword);
}
catch(SQLException sqle)
{
if(sqle.toString().indexOf("too many clients")>=0)
{
Logger.toLog("CONNECTION",stDataBaseName,"CDBConnectionPool.newConnection()
: Maxmimum connections Reached. Waiting for connections to freeup.");
con =
newConnection(stIPAddress,stPort,stDataBaseName,stDBType,stUser,stPassword);
}
else
{
Logger.toLog("CONNECTION",stDataBaseName,"CDBConnectionPool.newConnection()
: SQLException= " + sqle);
}
}
catch(ClassNotFoundException e)
{
Logger.toLog("CONNECTION",stDataBaseName,"CDBConnectionPool.newConnection() :
ClassNotFoundException = " + e.getCause());
}
catch(Exception e)
{
Logger.toLog("CONNECTION",stDataBaseName,"CDBConnectionPool.newConnection() :
Exception= " + e);
}
return con;
}

public void freeConnection(Connection con,String stDataBaseName)
{
try
{
con.close();

}catch(Exception
e){Logger.toLog("CONNECTION",stDataBaseName,"CDBConnectionPool.freeConnection :
Exception= " + e);}
}
}