Re: An I/O error occured while sending to the backend

Anthony Chaffey wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I have developed an application using the postgresql-8.0-310.jdbc3
> driver and connecting to a postgresql 8.0.1 database running on fedora
> core 3. Everything was working fine until i started running the
> application on the clients pc's. Randomly they receive an error, the
> stack trace of which is below.
>
> The only difference between my testing pc and the client's pc's is that
> they use a wireless network card. Both my machine and the client's pc's
> are running Windows XP with SP2. Similar problems have been posted on
> this mailing list and people have suggested a firewall is clearing the
> connection which makes sense as the client claims this problem only
> occurs if the application is left idle for a short time but does anyone
> have any more information that may help?

its probaly exactly what you say, most firewalls, NAT routers, etc will time
out idle sockets after a certain number of minutes...   They have to do this,
otherwise the firewall's connection tracking tables will fill up with old flug.

only good solution is to catch the exception, and attempt to reopen the
database connection, and retry the operation....