Re: [PERFORM] could not send data to client: Broken pipe

From: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: Pradeep Parmar <pradeep(dot)dba(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] could not send data to client: Broken pipe
Date: 2006-02-15 09:39:46
Message-ID: 43F2F6E2.1020004@archonet.com
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Pradeep Parmar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Postgres 7.4. I have a web application built with php4 using
> postgres7.4
>
> I was going through /var/log/messages of my linux box ( SLES 9). I
> encountered the following messages quite a few times.
>
>> postgres[20199]: [4-1] ERROR: could not send data to client: Broken pipe
>> postgres[30391]: [6-1] LOG: could not send data to client: Broken pipe
>> postgres[30570]: [6-1] LOG: could not send data to client: Broken pipe
>
> Can anyone help me in interpreting these messages?
> What is causing this error msg? What is the severity?

Not really a performance question, but at a guess your client went away.
Is there anything to indicate this in your php/apache logs? Can you
reproduce it by hitting cancel in your web-browser?

--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

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