Re: Postmaster not dropping connections on tomcat restart. - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

From Paul Thomas
Subject Re: Postmaster not dropping connections on tomcat restart.
Date
Msg-id 20040322154826.A23344@bacon
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In response to Postmaster not dropping connections on tomcat restart.  (Paul Davis <pjdavis@engineering.uiowa.edu>)
Responses Re: Postmaster not dropping connections on tomcat restart.  (dinakar <din_akar@yahoo.com>)
List pgsql-jdbc
On 17/03/2004 07:59 Paul Davis wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I've finally managed to get connection pooling going in tomcat.  I've
> noticed that when i reload my web app the postmaster will not drop any
> of the connections.
>
> Basically the order of things is I start Tomcat, check out my servlet
> and there's a connection that shows up to the postmaster.  Now while
> I've been doing some development I notice that when i reload my web app
> that the connection stays around.  And after enough connections are just
> sitting there, it doesn't allow me to make anymore.  It gives a JDBC
> error about not being able to make any more connections without
> superuser status.
>
> I'm not even sure if this would be a problem in production, but right
> now I'm finding it quite annoying to have to restart tomcat on a regular
> basis.
>
> Before I get flamed, I just want to note that I'm only asking here
> because I don't even know if this is a postgresql problem or a tomcat
> one.  So I'm asking on both mailing lists.

Is the connection pool defined within you web app's context?

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