>From the Slony-I docs (http://www.slony.info/documentation/faq.html) :
"Supposing you experience some sort of network outage, the connection between slon and database may fail, and the slon may figure this out long before the PostgreSQL instance it was connected to does. The result is that there will be some number of idle connections left on the database server, which won't be closed out until TCP/IP timeouts complete, which seems to normally take about two hours. For that two hour period, the slon will try to connect, over and over, and will get the above fatal message, over and over. " Speaking as someone who uses Slony quite a lot, this patch sounds very helpful. Why hasn't libpq had keepalives for years? Regards, Peter Geoghegan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers