Re: Win32 hard crash problem

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>>> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 
>>>>> What I've been wondering all along is whether they are using a
>>>>> connection pool.
>>>> Yes they are using a connection pool. A java based one.
>>> It's quite possible that it's the connection pool that gets confused,
>>> and not PostgreSQL itself.  It would be interesting if they change the
>>> connection setting when the "hang" next occurs, to point directly to
>>> PostgreSQL bypassing the connection pool.
>> Well except when they are connecting with Pgadmin (which wouldn't go 
>> through the connection pool) they get the error as well.
> 
> Are you assuming, or did they/you verify that this is indeed the case?
> I see no reason to assume that pgAdmin can't connect via a pool.
> 

Verified. They do not connect to the connection pool for pgadmin.

Although I would think pgadmin might have problems connecting to a java 
based pool. If I recall, (I could be cranked) JDBC apps can't use pgpool 
for example.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



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