Thread: BUG #13447: Zombie postgres.exe processes
The following bug has been logged on the website: Bug reference: 13447 Logged by: Paul Email address: m8r-geob63@mailinator.com PostgreSQL version: 9.4.1 Operating system: Win 7 x64 Description: Postgres.exe instances are being "zombified" after large number of rows (few million) are inserted. The instances will then stick around generally holding onto 400-600 MB of RAM. These instances no longer show up in the pgAdmin "Server Status" window. Closing all of the applications that were using Posgres does not clear these from memory. The only way I can clear these is to actually restart the Postgres service. My application is using the libpq library for database operations and it performs block transactions based on number of rows ready to be committed or length of time since last commit. I can easily reproduce this problem so it's not a one off occurrence.