Tom Lane wrote:
> Sean Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I'm WAY out of my depth here, but my impression, based on the
>> circumstances, is that there is some sort of an idle session timeout
>> kicking in (most likely on the client side) and dropping the connection.
>
> There's no such timeout in the Postgres server, for sure. I would
> actually bet that your problem is in some router between the client and
> the server. In particular, routers that do NAT address mapping
> typically have a timeout after which they will forget the mapping for an
> idle connection. If you've got one of those, see if it'll let you
> change the timeout.
>
> If you can't do that, you might think about teaching your client-side
> code to send dummy queries every so often.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
I've already maxed out the connection timeout at the firewall... and
I've been using dummy queries every five minutes, but it just feels like
a crutch to do so.
Sean
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