John,
Just wanted to reply that this seems to have been the right track.
Rather than change the firewall settings, our network administrator
was able set postgres to send a keepalive to the client.
Thanks,
--Lee
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Lee Hachadoorian
<lee.hachadoorian@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:01 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:
>> are you running pgadmin and postgres server on the same computer, or on
>> different computers?
>
> Different computers.
>>
>> if different computers, is there any sort of connection tracking in between,
>> such as a NAT router/gateway?
>>
>> 15-20 mins sounds a lot like the typical NAT idle connection timeout...
>
> I will have to ask the network administrator and respond.
>
> Thanks,
> --Lee