Re: 7.3.2 closing connections, sometimes

On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:10:40PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > felix(at)crowfix(dot)com wrote:
> >> This is a SOAP server, Apache with mod_perl, connecting to Postgres
> >> via DBI/DBD::Pg. Sometimes it gets in a mood, for want of a better
> >> term, where a specific SQL statement fails with the good ole message
> >> "server closed the connection unexpectedly". It will fail like this
>
> The specific statement being what exactly?

select it.id, it.it_class_id, it.it_code_version_id,
it.it_data_version, it.note, it_class.class, it_class.id,
it_code_version.version, it_code_version.id, it_class.id,
it_code_version.id from it join it_class on (it_class.id =
it.it_class_id) join it_code_version on (it_code_version.id =
it.it_code_version_id) where class = ? AND version = ? AND
it_data_version > ?

> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > This message is from the backend exiting abruptly. Is isn't an "ERROR"
> > as we define it for logging purposes. That's why there is nothing in
> > the logs.
>
> Nonetheless I'd expect there to be at least a postmaster complaint about
> a crashed backend --- assuming that that's what's going on. Do the
> other active connections get forcibly closed when this happens?

Haven't had any others open, it's a dev system. But I'll try leaving
a psql session open. Right now it's gotten itself into the mood of
always working, so it might have to wait a while.

Could a corrupt db cause these mood swings? And if so, would that
persist even across dropdb / creatdb?

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