Since upgrading FreeBSD from 8 to 9, I've noticed the following messages showing up in logs when a connection with pgAdmin3 is made:
LOG: getsockopt(TCP_KEEPCNT) failed: Protocol not available STATEMENT: SELECT setting FROM pg_settings WHERE name IN ('autovacuum', 'track_counts') LOG: getsockopt(TCP_KEEPIDLE) failed: Protocol not available STATEMENT: SELECT setting FROM pg_settings WHERE name IN ('autovacuum', 'track_counts') LOG: getsockopt(TCP_KEEPINTVL) failed: Protocol not available STATEMENT: SELECT setting FROM pg_settings WHERE name IN ('autovacuum', 'track_counts') tcp_keepalives_idle, tcp_keepalives_interval, and tcp_keepalives_count are all set to the default (0), which means "system default". My guess as to what causes this: src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c apparently assumes that if TCP_KEEPIDLE & friends are defined, then the respective options are readable, but according to man tcp, that is not the case for FreeBSD 9 (and 10): TCP_KEEPINIT This write-only setsockopt(2) option accepts a per-socket timeout argument of u_int in seconds, for new, non-estab- lished TCP connections. For the global default in mil- liseconds see keepinit in the MIB Variables section fur- ther down. As a work-around, I've set the keepalive options to the system defaults provided by man tcp. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers