Friction

Pain point · Reliability & bugs · Causes churn

Server stuck in a loop failing to reach Postgres, workflows stall

2 source threads · first seen 2023-10 · last seen 2024-09

Summary

On a self-hosted ARM64 cluster against RDS Postgres, the history service loops on a database connection error and workflows stop progressing, with no known reproduction.

Affects
Self-hosters on AWS RDS Postgres

Evidence

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“Workflows are stuck and the server logs indicate the history service is stuck in a loop trying to connect to a Postgres 14.12 DB”

“50% of all CPU load (4 cores) just from opening new connections”

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