Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: >>>> It looks to me that you may be a victim of the bug patched in >>>> >> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2007-01/msg00214.php. >>>> Tom, whatever happened about a backpatch for that one? >>> It's applied. >>> >> http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/bgwriter.c >> >> Bah. I looked aruond but didn't find it. Clearly I'm blind. Thanks. >> >> So - if you're not on 8.1.7 or 8.1.8, upgrade to 8.1.8 and let us know >> if you still have the problem. > I wrote 8.1.x but we are actually on 8.1.8 and the problem is there (I > just checked because I am not the local system administrator). Just in case, I'd double-check that. Check the version information on postgres.exe (available through the right-click properties view in Explorer). It could be that the upgrade failed. If it's not then the next logical question is - any antivirus, antispyware or quota software running on that machine? //Magnus
