Re: multiple threads inserting into the same table

Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Brian Cox <brian(dot)cox(at)ca(dot)com> wrote:
>> This generates and executes a single SQL insert. Since, as you point out,
>> postgres seems to think that this transaction isn't doing anything,
>> it's hard to figure out what the read is doing.

> Might you have a firewall that's killing the connections? What does
> netstat -an on the client side say about these connections?

netstat will probably say the connection is open on both sides ---
otherwise the sockets would have closed. It looks like both sides
still think the connection is open. A firewall timeout is still
a possibility, but you'd have had to have a fairly long idle time
for that to happen. Are any of the threads issuing commands that might
have run for very long intervals (tens of minutes)?

regards, tom lane