On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Ben Carbery <ben.carbery@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Or that OP has a networking issue. Some firewalls are known for
>> dropping what they think are idle connections when they aren't.
>>
>
> I don't think so.. EOF is an explicit termination, not a timeout as would
> caused by a firewall dropping traffic. It's more like what happens when the
> remote process on the client is killed for example. Postgres probably
> expects to see some kind of "quit" command prior to receiving the EOF.
Well, this is exactly the error I used to get when the problem was
having a firewall timeout between client and server at my last job.
The fix there was to play with the tcp_keepalive settings
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