Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> writes: > While playing on Windows with services, I noticed an inconsistent behavior > in the way failures are handled when using a service for a Postgres > instance. > ... > However when a backend process is directly killed something different > happens.
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". regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers