Re: while vacuum: pq_flush: send() failed: Broken pipe

"Thomas T. Thai" <tom(at)minnesota(dot)com> writes:
> pq_flush: send() failed: Broken pipe
> pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
>>
>> Are you sure that's "while" doing the vacuum, and not "after"?
>> In any case, what this indicates is ungraceful disconnection by the
>> client. What client software was used to issue the vacuum command?

> client was from psql. i saw that appear in the log by doing tail -f before
> i saw the word VACUUM.. but it was right about the same time.

If the psql process didn't betray any unhappiness, then the broken-pipe
error isn't referring to the psql connection. What other clients were
running?

regards, tom lane