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0000657Pgpool-IIBugpublic2020-11-25 21:06
ReporterNilsson Assigned Tot-ishii  
PriorityhighSeveritymajorReproducibilityrandom
Status resolvedResolutionopen 
OSCentos 8 
Product Version4.1.4 
Fixed in Version4.1.5 
Summary0000657: Sporadic "Sorry, to many clients already"
DescriptionI have written more information about this issue on stackoverflow. But paste the maim text here also.
For more files and info please see this link:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64615097/pgpool-ii-sorry-too-many-clients-already

Issue:
Every now and then there is an error from the pgpool cluster: Sorry, too many clients already. Usually when connecting with psql, but sometimes this also happens from entity framework.

My initial thought was that this was because the databases had to many clients connected, but running pg_stat_activity just seconds after the error shows that there are way less connections (around 50), then the 150 max_connections in psql config. I could not find any errors at all in psql logs in the "log" folder in psql data directory.

But in the pgpool.log file there are an error entry: Oct 30 16:34:19 sql1 pgpool[4062984]: [109497-1] 2020-10-30 16:34:19: pid 4062984: ERROR: Sorry, too many clients already

pgpool has num_init_children = 32 and max_pool = 4 so I do not really see where the problem might be coming from.
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t-ishii

2020-11-01 08:06

developer   ~0003594

There is a similar report: https://www.pgpool.net/mantisbt/view.php?id=656
The problem happens when a query is canceled. If it applied to this too, you can try a patch attached to 0000656.
If not, please let us know how to reproduce the problem.

Nilsson

2020-11-02 22:06

reporter   ~0003595

First of all, thank you very much for your resonse.
Impressive responsetime, it is very much appreciated.

I have checked the other report and this might actually be the same problem.
(My application still works after one or many of these errors occurred though. But I guess the counter goes down in other ways.)

I do not really know how to apply the patch and think I will wait for november 19 for the official update.

Nilsson

2020-11-25 20:33

reporter   ~0003612

I have upgraded now to 4.1.5. So far everything seems to work ok. I think though I cannot by certainty say that this issue is resolved until around 2 months from now, since it took quite some time until the last problem occurred.
So close this issue for now and if, which I do not think, the error comes back I open a new issue instead.

t-ishii

2020-11-25 21:05

developer   ~0003613

Ok, I will close this issue for now.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2020-10-31 10:16 Nilsson New Issue
2020-11-01 08:06 t-ishii Note Added: 0003594
2020-11-01 08:06 t-ishii Assigned To => t-ishii
2020-11-01 08:06 t-ishii Status new => feedback
2020-11-02 22:06 Nilsson Note Added: 0003595
2020-11-02 22:06 Nilsson Status feedback => assigned
2020-11-25 20:33 Nilsson Note Added: 0003612
2020-11-25 21:05 t-ishii Fixed in Version => 4.1.5
2020-11-25 21:05 t-ishii Note Added: 0003613
2020-11-25 21:06 t-ishii Status assigned => resolved