Re: pgAdmin on Mac connecting to Postgres 9 on Linux - SSL/timeout issue

On Oct 29, 2010, at 15:36, Mike Christensen wrote:

> I have a Postgres 9 server running on a server out on the Internet and
> I connect to it with pgAdmin on OS/X over an SSL connection.
>
> I notice if I keep the connection open and idle for maybe an hour or
> so, when I try to run a query it either times out or pgAdmin just
> kinda freezes up and I have to force quit.. Is there some sort of
> idle timeout setting on SSL connections, or maybe it has to
> re-negotiate the connection after a certain amount of idle time and
> it's not doing that right?
>
> Anyone run into this before? Thanks!

I don't know about pgAdmin or SSL, but I have heard that routers and switches
can have a timeout limit: "the idle time after which an established
connection of any protocol closes".

http://search.gmane.org/?query=router+timeout&group=gmane.comp.lang.inug-4d.tech

--Basil Bourque