"Jeremy Haile" <jhaile@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Unfortunately I don't have any debugging tools installed that would work > against postgres - although I'd be glad to do something if you could > tell me the steps involved. I can reproduce the issue quite easily on > two different Windows machines (one is XP, the other is 2003). Sorry, I don't know anything about Windows debugging either. Can you put together a test case that would let one of the Windows-using hackers reproduce it? > Do you know of any workaround other than restarting the whole server? > Can the collector be restarted individually? On Unix you can just 'kill -TERM' the collector process and the postmaster will start a new one without engaging in a database panic cycle. Dunno what the equivalent is on Windows but it's probably possible. regards, tom lane