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Postgres could not receive data from client: Connection timed out

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Problem

Am a sql DBA, learning postgres..In postgres logs i often receive "could not receive data from client: Connection timed out" I do not have any other logs other than this

Am not sure how to troubleshoot? I check the application logs and DBs logs to compare the time but I could not notice any abnormalities.

can someone guide me how to trace this issue.

Thanks

Solution

A few possibilities:

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Your application closes connections without telling the PostgreSQL server it's doing so, by simply closing the network socket. It should send a PQclose(conn) if using libpq, or whatever equivalent your language/driver has.

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Network address translation timeouts on idle connections or other related network issues cause the TCP connections to break, so client and server lose communication with each other.

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A firewall on the client or server is blocking or disrupting connections after they're established (maybe malfunctioning IDS?)

Context

StackExchange Database Administrators Q#159540, answer score: 7

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