SSL failure, v7.3.6

Your name : John Madden
Your email address : jmadden(at)ivytech(dot)edu

System Configuration
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Architecture (example: Intel Pentium) : Intel Xeon

Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) : Linux 2.4.26 (Debian 3.0)

PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-7.3.6): PostgreSQL-7.3.6

Compiler used (example: gcc 2.95.2) : gcc version 2.95.4
20011002 (Debian prerelease)

Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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Clients connecting over SSL fail consistently when pulling across certain
data right after a statement prepare (via perl's DBD::Pg). The same
statement succeeds with different arguments, and it even succeeds from the
psql client with the arguments that cause failure via perl. Error from
syslog follows:

LOG: SSL SYSCALL error: EOF detected
LOG: pq_recvbuf: recv() failed: Connection reset by peer

Please describe a way to repeat the problem. Please try to provide a
concise reproducible example, if at all possible:
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Debian 3.0 apache, perl, postgresql-client, and libdbd-pg-perl packages
were used, I imagine it can be duplicated easily. I should be able to
provide a pg_dump of that database if it would be helpful.

If you know how this problem might be fixed, list the solution below:
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