Yep ,
We do connect to 5432 to see if pg is up every min
and disconnect. it is not a db connection but a simple
opening / closing of TCP/IP socket for port 5432.
that is the cheapest port monitoring i could think of
regds
mallah.
On Tuesday 17 December 2002 09:54 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Rajesh Kumar Mallah." <mallah@trade-india.com> writes:
> > the following "LOG" lines were found in my /var/log/pgsql
> >
> > LOG: pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
> > LOG: incomplete startup packet
> >
> > are they harmless?
>
> Harmless to PG, yes. They might indicate something worthy of
> investigation though ... like someone portscanning your server.
> Or just a broken client. Anyway it appears something is connecting
> to your port 5432 and then disconnecting right away.
>
> regards, tom lane
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