Re: connection dropped from the backend server

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> On Mar 27, 2018, at 9:21 PM, armand pirvu <armand(dot)pirvu(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>>> On Mar 27, 2018, at 6:49 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
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>>> Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> writes:
>>>> On 03/27/2018 04:07 PM, armand pirvu wrote:
>>>> As long as the connection stays up yes data gets fine across
>>>> In pg_stat_activity I see the node ip address where tail -f piped into psql happens
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>>> So what does the rest of that record show? In particular for:
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>> I wonder how often data gets put into the pipe. If it's "not very often",
>> maybe the connection from psql to the server is timing out due to
>> inactivity? This would be the fault of a firewall or something in
>> between. You could probably fix it by enabling (more aggressive) TCP
>> keepalive settings.
>>
>> regards, tom lane
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> Well there is no flow pattern, The flow can be inexistent for days , even weeks and then it can get super busy
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> The data flows as expected well untill the connection gets dropped. Bolded from pg_stat_activity (a test I just did)
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> birstdb=# select datname, pid, client_addr, client_port, backend_start, query_start, state from pg_stat_Activity;
> datname | pid | client_addr | client_port | backend_start | query_start | state
> ---------+-------+---------------+-------------+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+--------
> birstdb | 10046 | | -1 | 2018-03-27 20:40:11.721804-05 | 2018-03-27 20:47:27.118434-05 | active
> birstdb | 10082 | 192.168.1.187 | 55859 | 2018-03-27 20:43:55.301216-05 | 2018-03-27 20:46:07.190064-05 | idle
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> ps -fu armandp
> UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
> armandp 3264 3263 0 20:39:13 pts/2 0:00 tail -f /u1/sys_admin/dba/ingres2birst.fifo
> armandp 3265 3263 0 20:39:13 pts/2 0:00 psql -U csidba -d birstdb -h 172.16.10.93
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> Give it about 10 min at most and bam out it goes
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> birstdb=# select datname, pid, client_addr, client_port, backend_start, query_start, state from pg_stat_Activity;
> datname | pid | client_addr | client_port | backend_start | query_start | state
> ---------+-------+-------------+-------------+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+--------
> birstdb | 10208 | | -1 | 2018-03-27 20:51:25.835382-05 | 2018-03-27 21:08:47.164249-05 | active
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> Although the above two processes are still out
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> I think the tcp keep alives might help but I am also thinking like a each min check maybe and if things got in the pipe well dump ‘em to Postgres. Something along these lines
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> Any ideas/suggestions you might have to improve this ? I am not saying it is perfect far from it, but I kinda took the model/idea from the Nagios named pipe only that one too runs at x seconds/minutes interval defined
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> Thank you both
> — Armand

Sorry for the double post but as a possible solution. Why not move the named pipe to the postgres host and simply whatever i was dumping into said pipe instead of doing locally just doing over ssh

What do you think ?

Thank you
-- Armand