<operationsengineer1@yahoo.com> writes:
> It looks to me like postmaster is stopped, but I can still connect to template1. This is a contradiction, is it not?
The postmaster is running (else psql wouldn't work) but it looks to me
like the task manager doesn't know about it.
Windows isn't my turf ... you might try on pgsql-hackers-win32 ...
regards, tom lane