Re: Connections refused during backups

Tom Lane wrote:
> Glen Eustace <geustace(at)godzone(dot)net(dot)nz> writes:
>>>> My apologies, I shouldn't have used the generic socket error 'Connection
>>>> refused'. What I am getting are errors like
>>>> "Could not connect to database" from libnss-pgsql
>
>> This is the exact message from libnss-pgsql,
>
> While you are at it, you should complain to the libnss-pgsql authors
> about the inadequacy of the error message. It should at least be
> repeating the libpq error message ...
>
> regards, tom lane

Nothing of interest appears in the postmaster logs so I am broadening my
search for general network incidents/activity as opposed to postgresql
specific.

I have also downloaded the source for libnss-pgsql and will add some
extra code to see if I can get any more useful info from it.

Thanks for the comments/help to date :-)