I was told about behaviour of psql command line client that seems as bug to me. When I am connected to server (cmdline client, interactive mode) and server is restarted next query fails and client try to reconnect to server. Problem arise when I send more queries (not speaking that this may not be a good habit) at once - on first one client detects that connection is lost and try to reconnect and then rest of queries are executed (but not the first one). This can have bad consequences (e.g. if first query is BEGIN;):

sample (postgresql 8.3.15):

(test@[local:/var/opt/testdb/pg_sockets]:20000) 10:55:34 [testdb]
#> select 10; select 20;
 ?column?
----------
       10
(1 row)

Time: 0.142 ms
 ?column?
----------
       20
(1 row)

Time: 0.039 ms
(test@[local:/var/opt/testdb/pg_sockets]:20000) 10:55:42 [testdb]
#> select 10; select 20;
FATAL:  terminating connection due to administrator command
server closed the connection unexpectedly
This probably means the server terminated abnormally
before or while processing the request.
The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Succeeded.
 ?column?
----------
       20
(1 row)

Time: 0.193 ms

I would suggest to not execute any query or all of them after reconnect.

Jiri

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