Jeff Frost <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Was the 3,000 transactions per minute helpful? What other evidence should I > be looking for? Did you try generating a test case using a long sleep() as a replacement for the archive_command script? If there is a PG bug here it shouldn't be that hard to expose it in a simple test case. I'm up to my armpits in other stuff and don't have time to try it myself... regards, tom lane