Re: I/O error

Antonini Roberto wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Someone could explain to me the meaning of this exception:
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> *An I/O error occured while reading from backend - Exception:
> java.net.SocketException: Connection reset*
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> when I try to invoke DB function to remote DB.
>
> could it be a driver trouble?

The driver is reporting a TCP/IP-level communication error.

The usual cause is a stateful firewall betweeen the JDBC client and the
server. A connection that stays idle for a long time may be considered
dead and dropped by the firewall, and you will see a "connection reset"
error when it is eventually reused.

-O