"Trigve Siver" <trigves@xxxxxxxxx> wrote > > I have installed PostgreSQL 8.1 on windows XP with SP2 ... > > 2006-06-19 12:00:38 LOG: terminating any other active server processes > 2006-06-19 12:00:38 LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing > 2006-06-19 12:00:41 LOG: background writer process (PID 132500) exited with exit code 0 > 2006-06-19 12:00:41 LOG: terminating any other active server processes > 2006-06-19 12:00:41 LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing > 2006-06-19 12:00:43 LOG: background writer process (PID 133080) exited with exit > ... Looks like the server try hard to restart. Is there any PANIC message you found in the log? Regards, Qingqing