Re: "could not receive data from client" && "incomplete startup packet"

I think I found out what's going on.
In the perl script, I'm "forking" a parallel process. The DB connection
gets messed up as a consequence (sorry, I can't articulate better because I
don't fully understand). But the answer (at least what worked for me), is
to formally disconnect and then reconnect back in the main thread.
Fortunately, I don't have any outstanding transactions at that time so I
don't lose anything as far as that's concerned.

my $pid = fork()

if($pid == 0) {
<do whatever the forked proc needs to do>
}

$dbh->disconnect();
$dbh->connect(...)

proceed with the rest of the perl script.

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 11:59 AM, David Gauthier <davegauthierpg(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hi David, thanks for the response.
>
> I upgraded to 9.3.2 and recreated the DB there. So far, so good. But
> nights are usually the worse time, so we'll see later.
> There is a more current version of the perl code, but that's not the
> project default at this time. If the PG upgrade fixes this, I'll be happy
> with that, else I'll point to the more recent perl versions.
>
> Thanks Again
>
> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 9:47 AM, David G. Johnston <
> david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 7:34 AM, David Gauthier <davegauthierpg(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a v9.3.0 PG DB on a linux box as the DB server.
>>>
>> ​[...]​
>>
>>
>>> Any help would be appreciated!
>>>
>>>
>> Upgrade to 9.3.20 and ensure you are using a current version of Perl and
>> DB modules.
>>
>> David J.
>>
>>
>