Re: Postgres Giving Errors Incomplete Startup Packet

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Amit Aggarwal" <amit(dot)aggarwal1(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org, Vikas <mailvgarg(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Postgres Giving Errors Incomplete Startup Packet
Date: 2008-09-29 16:34:21
Message-ID: 14713.1222706061@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Amit Aggarwal" <amit(dot)aggarwal1(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> We are running a web application making connections to postgres using jdbc.
> It is fairly database intensive, but we find the logs filled with the
> following dump. What could be the possible causes for this ?

The probable cause is something connecting to port 5432 and then
disconnecting without sending anything. The fact that the occurrences
are exactly a minute apart suggests that it's some sort of monitoring
tool. I've heard that there's stuff out there that makes a cheesy probe
that Postgres is "up" by just seeing if it can connect to 5432.

regards, tom lane

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