Amin Abdulghani <amin(at)quantiva(dot)com> writes:
> Running Postgres 7.2.1 with python/psycopg (python
> interface for postgres using libpq)/webware application
> server on Solaris, I get a postgres error "could not
> receive data from server Error 0 " when I try to retrieve
> a large text column (16 K) from a table.
Hmm, are you using an SSL-encrypted connection? If so, does it happen
when you don't encrypt? We recently found several bugs in the 7.3
version of the SSL interface code, but since it had been largely
rewritten since 7.2, I didn't look to see if the bugs might apply to
7.2.
regards, tom lane