Re: Connection reset by peer

Joe Lester <joe_lester@sweetwater.com> writes:

> I'm seeing this message a couple times per day in my postgres log:
>
> 2004-04-20 14:47:46 LOG:  could not receive data from client:
> Connection reset by peer
>
> What does it mean? I've seen in the archives that it seems to be some
> kind of system error. Does anyone know how serious this message is?
> Does it mean that one of my clients is failing to connect or, worse,
> losing data in transit?

It generally means a client is exiting, or getting killed, without
shutting down the PG connection properly.

-Doug