Re: Broken pipes

I dunno if this makes any differnec or not, but we use php to interface w/
postgress. Could this also have anything to do with this problem?

as well would this surpression be in the current snapshots?

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "mike sears" <matrix(at)quadrent(dot)net>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: 26 October, 2001 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: Broken pipes

> "mike sears" <matrix(at)quadrent(dot)net> writes:
> > pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
>
> This indicates that you have clients that are disconnecting
> ungracefully, but it doesn't tell us much about why.
>
> One recently-understood possibility is that if you are using psql
> with password authentication, then psql doesn't prompt you for a
> password until it's tried and failed to connect without. That
> failure provokes one of these messages. (For 7.2, we've hacked the
> postmaster to suppress the log message in that case.)
>
> Otherwise you have misbehaving client-side software. I think that
> the ODBC driver is known not to disconnect gracefully, but I don't
> know of any other problems that would cause this, short of client
> crashes.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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