# Patroni problems - replicas rejecting connection

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**Category:** PostgreSQL\
**Created:** [June 22, 2023, 7:58am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/patroni-problems-replicas-rejecting-connection/23025 "2023-06-22T07:58:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 7:58am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/patroni-problems-replicas-rejecting-connection/23025/1 "2023-06-22T07:58:27Z")

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Hello can someone help me recover a pg-db cluster, replica pods are constantly restarting saying postgres is not running. I’m attaching the full log

```auto
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/patroni/api.py", line 595, in get_postgresql_status
    row = self.query(stmt.format(postgresql.wal_name, postgresql.lsn_name), retry=retry)[0]
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/patroni/api.py", line 577, in query
    return self.server.query(sql, *params)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/patroni/api.py", line 663, in query
    raise PostgresConnectionException('connection problems')
patroni.exceptions.PostgresConnectionException: 'connection problems'
2023-06-22 07:53:39,304 WARNING: Postgresql is not running.

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**Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 9:06am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/patroni-problems-replicas-rejecting-connection/23025/2 "2023-06-22T09:06:45Z")

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> [@Slavisa\_Milojkovic](#):
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> `patroni.exceptions.PostgresConnectionException: 'connection problems'`

The problem was with the default mem values limit of 128Mb, you should change those for replicas.