Weird error messages from Windows upon client death
On windows, if the client gets terminated while sending data to the server,
in a COPY for example, it results in some rather head-scratcher messages in
the server log, for example:
LOG: could not receive data from client: No connection could be made
because the target machine actively refused it.
Since the server was reading from the client and never tries to initiate a
connection, the %m part of the message is a bit baffling. The errno at
this point is 10061.
Googling for "No connection could be made because the target machine
actively refused it", I can't find any mentions for it that occur in a
context in which a connection is not being attempted, except for from
PostgreSQL. So I think we must be doing something wrong but I can't figure
out what that would be (no strace, not gdb). Any tips on how to figure out
why this is happening?
I run the below, and then terminated it with a ctrl-C. This is with 9.4dev
compiled with MinGW, but I've seen (unconfirmed by me) reports of the same
%m from the Windows binary distribution for a production version.
perl -le 'print rand() foreach 1..10000000' | psql -c 'copy foo from stdin'
Cheers,
Jeff
On Jan28, 2014, at 19:19 , Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> wrote:
On windows, if the client gets terminated while sending data to the server, in a
COPY for example, it results in some rather head-scratcher messages in the server
log, for example:LOG: could not receive data from client: No connection could be made because
the target machine actively refused it.Since the server was reading from the client and never tries to initiate a
connection, the %m part of the message is a bit baffling. The errno at this
point is 10061.
My guess is that the server received a TCP RST, indicating that the client's
socket has gone away, and the the error message is the same for a RST received
during connection setup and a RST received later on.
During connection setup, it absolutely makes sense to say that the "client has
actively refused the connection" if it responds to a SYN packet with RST...
best regards,
Florian Pflug
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