"Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Not sure with Windows. I'm strictly a unix type of guy. I'm guessing > that Windows is detecting too many connections / out of memory and > shutting down the service. The whole thing is pretty strange. "received fast shutdown request" means that the postmaster got SIGINT --- a moment's look at the code proves there is no other possibility. Now what sent it SIGINT? AFAICS there are only two possible paths: "pg_ctl stop -m fast" or this little bit of code in win32/signal.c: /* Console control handler will execute on a thread created by the OS at the time of invocation */ static BOOL WINAPI pg_console_handler(DWORD dwCtrlType) { if (dwCtrlType == CTRL_C_EVENT || dwCtrlType == CTRL_BREAK_EVENT || dwCtrlType == CTRL_CLOSE_EVENT || dwCtrlType == CTRL_SHUTDOWN_EVENT) { pg_queue_signal(SIGINT); return TRUE; } return FALSE; } Can any Windows hackers speculate on causes of this? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings