Postgres SSL SYSCALL error: EOF detected with python and psycopg

Question

Using psycopg2 package with python 2.7 I keep getting the titled error: psycopg2.DatabaseError: SSL SYSCALL error: EOF detected

It only occurs when I add a WHE

Answer 1

This issue occurred for me when I had some rogue queries running causing tables to be locked indefinitely. I was able to see the queries by running:

SELECT * from STV_RECENTS where status='Running' order by starttime desc;

then kill them with:

SELECT pg_terminate_backend();