On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Was that a backend that you directly killed? Or the postmaster? The
> subsequent connection failures suggest it was the postmaster. Killing
> the postmaster is not a supported operation, not on Windows and not
> anywhere else either. It's in the category of "doctor, it hurts when
> I do this".
>
The headshot was done on random backends. Perhaps in some of those tests
the postmaster was taken down though :) I didn't check postmaster.pid all
the time.
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Michael