Re: Incomplete startup packet errors

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Incomplete startup packet errors
Date: 2016-04-13 08:21:49
Message-ID: CA+OCxoydn7sFxFhf4XaJk+abmXyDJ1MoX=7m3vynBGnPRu3GDw@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
> It's fairly common to see a lot of "Incomplete startup packet" in the
> logfiles caused by monitoring or healthcheck connections.
>
> I wonder if it would make sense to only log that error if *at least one
> byte* has been received and then it becomes empty. Meaning that if the
> client just connects+disconnects without sending anything, we don't log
> anything. At least at the default log level (we could have a DEBUG level
> that logged "connection closed immediately").
>
> That would get rid of a lot of logspam.
>
> Would that make sense?

Absolutely. It would be very nice to get rid of such noise.

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