>>>> Which you can do, no? I thought pg_ctl's kill option was invented
>>>> specifically to make this less painful on Windows.
> I shall look into the pg_ctl options to see if the kill option does
> what taskill cannot (thanks for the heads up on that)
>
Using
$ pg_ctl kill TERM [pid]
worked great. Since very few people seem to know about this, could I
suggest making it more prominent in the server administration pages.
Thanks for your help gentlemen. Once again I am overwhelmed by the
quality of support on the forum.
