Re: Stats collector frozen?

"Jeremy Haile" <jhaile(at)fastmail(dot)fm> 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