Mark van Cuijk <postgresql.org-pgsql-general...@45cents.nl> writes:
> I’m developing an application using Postgres and when doing a transaction 
> with a bunch of INSERT statements, the connection to the server (on 
> localhost) often suddenly dies. Trying to diagnose the problem, I’ve 
> increased log levels and I’ve run a tcpdump session to find out what’s going 
> on, can someone spot something strange or point me in a direction to continue 
> debugging?

> The symptom I notice is that the Postgres server (9.1 from Ubuntu repo) 
> closes the connection, sometimes by sending a TCP FIN, sometimes by sending a 
> TCP RST, but I’m not sure why this happens. The (node.js / 
> node-postgres-pure) client doesn’t report any error message that could have 
> been received from the server; it only complains that the connection 
> unexpectedly closed during query execution.

Your log extract looks like the server side thought it got a connection
closure command.  In particular, the server process seems to have exited
normally, and it did not write "LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection",
which it would have done if the TCP connection dropped without receipt of
such a command.

Based on these facts, I'm going to speculate that your client application
is multi-threaded and some thread is closing a connection out from under
another one.  It's usually best to have only one thread touching a
particular connection; or if you want to maintain a connection pool
yourself, be very sure you have clear acquire and release rules.

                        regards, tom lane


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