"Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote
>
>> The problem is that process IDs on Windows seem to be assigned without
>> much rhyme or reason and it seems to happen relatively frequently that a
>> new process will be assigned the same process ID as a process which
>> recently died.
>
> That's an interesting theory, but do you have any actual evidence for it?
>
I can confirm that on Windows 2000 the process ID is recycled instantly.
Regards,
Qingqing