Hi Scott,

> Most likely what is happening is that you have a firewall between your
> app and your db server that is closing idle connections after x minutes.

Thanks for your comment.

I hate to be disagreeable, but the app and postgres are running
on the same computer. The app is a java program using jdbc to
issue postgres commands. However, I see the same message via
psql (on the same machine).

Tena Sakai
tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott.marlowe@gmail.com]
Sent: Fri 11/9/2007 2:11 PM
To: Tena Sakai
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] idle in transaction...unexpected EOF on client connection

On Nov 9, 2007 3:58 PM, Tena Sakai <tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I see in serverlog many entries that read:
> <gadb 2007-11-09 13:13:47 PST idle in transaction>LOG: unexpected EOF on
> client connection
> <gadb 2007-11-09 13:23:08 PST idle in transaction>LOG: unexpected EOF on
> client connection
> <gadb 2007-11-09 13:23:44 PST idle in transaction>LOG: unexpected EOF on
> client connection
> <gadb 2007-11-09 13:25:42 PST idle in transaction>LOG: unexpected EOF on
> client connection
>
> This occurs regularly and frequently and I am
> wondering if it is indicative of any underlying
> issue(s). Would you please let me know what
> you know?

Most likely what is happening is that you have a firewall between your
app and your db server that is closing idle connections after x
minutes. Could be other things, like crashing clients, etc... Hard
to say without more evidence.