It's definitely possible. Both failures occurred around the end of the business day as update traffic would have been coasting to a stop. The middle tier never closes a connection unless it's forced to (e.g. as a result of a query error, connection going away, etc.)
Pete >>> Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/18/06 4:50 pm >>> Hmm, could these be backends that have been sitting idle for some time? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
